Can Americans Name a Country?
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Is there hope for Americans and Geography
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I'm not sure there's any hope for all American education, it's quite poor compared to most other developed countries.
Short answer?
No
i haven't watched the video yet, i'll write first: i think your expectations are hopeless, sorry
You're kidding, it's AUSTRALIA. .
you have also made it more difficult because of the point of view of the map is not what most people are used to see most people are used to see where south and no America on left hand sight on the map and we are around. There’s a tricky picture of the map you chosen here that’s right that’s so many people are confused about what country has a suitable name on it. It is difficult when it’s not there where we are used to see it so it’s difficult to. I was very close to go into the trip you have made, but I didn’t guys I got to see where different parts of the world is.😎😇
You have to be joking. It is Australia.
💀
I actually figured it out 😢
Also, Africa is a continent, not a country.
Australia is probably the most identifiable on a world map tbh
Yes, but Australia doesn't exist, according to flat earthers
@@erosgritti5171 Nor does critical thinking and research based science according to them but we weren’t talking about moonhowlers
@@erosgritti5171duh, the map is obviously flat
:)
The most worrying thing about that video, regardless of what side of the political spectrum those people identify with, is that US americans always boast about their patriotism but these people CAN'T EVEN POINT THEIR OWN COUNTRY ON A MAP! 🤦♂
That's what was frightening, the questioned asked to name any country and yet none of them named even their own country.
I know these people were handed picked but seriously, that was bad and I can't imagine many people from other modern countries not being able to point out their own country on a map, and in the case of the US, considering how much they like to boost about their own country, it's quite shocking how many can't point it out on a map.
I know! I think it is because they never see the US attached to its neigbours and therefore don’t recognise their own continent.
And why would they have to if the US IS THEIR WHOLE WORLD?
The land of the brave and the free; free of education and brave to admit and be proud to be uneducated.
This is painful. Even my kids knew the world map by the age of 7. Its nothing short of shameful.
This is ridiculous!We in Europe or even just the Netherlands can point to almost every country in the world,because we were taught this when we were maybe 6 or 8 years old!This is seriously a big fault in the teaching of the american citizens!!They are far to much focused on the United States!Just like there is only the United States on the world..
As a Brit, I think I could point out most countries but I will likely get confused on a few countries, especially on the African continent as that is my weakness.
But I really do have to wonder what they are teaching Americans that can't even point out their own country, I mean seriously, I suspect it would be difficult to find many people in other modern countries that can't point out their own country.
@@paul1979uk2000 Really...? Forgot about your Empire?
I could be wrong, but I feel that when a country like the US is ultra-patriotic ~ as in the pledge of allegiance, homes flying flags, saying they're the best & freest (?) country in the world, etc., some Americans may think their country only matters, so why know about the rest of the world? What can those poor, shackled countries teach us? Just a thought.
Groetjes uit Canada
It is obvious that many Americans know little, or have any interest, in anything outside the US.
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 I do understand why he’s wondering a little bit because you if you had Luke correctly so you can see but then yeah you probably don’t think that but you’re south and on the right hand side of the map Europe, Africa, and Russia, Maine is on the left side of the map I think does confusing him because he used to see that part with Europe and Russia, right hand sight on the map south and north America on the left hand side of the map that’s why I think it’s so difficult for so many of the people to tell where different countries are because I was close to get in that trip by myself. FaceTime saw that map, first time I saw that map that was really really weird and then I could recognize some countries and then I know what happened is this is seeing from another point of view in the world and that in that point of view bread I used to see on the map😎😇
Australia is the large island in the Southerrn Ocean. The two islands south east of it are New Zealand. You're right, more Americans know more about the Kardashians than most things. :)
I bet most of Kardashians fans could not find Kardashian's country of origin on a map :D
@@TallisKeeton I'm European and tbh, I have no clue about them. But If I look at their name, I would guess from my hip, their origin is Armenia. It could also be from the Levante...
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 yes, its Armenia, though I was not sure myself AFAIK it could also be Georgia. But I mean that a fan of those family should be able to know what was their country right? I m not a fan its like 3d time I actualy hear their name so :)
@@TallisKeeton Well... The Georgians names end oft on something like willi, or willy, like in Dschugaschwilli, which was Stalin's original name...
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 It's much simpler: Saint George is the Patron Saint of Georgia, while American Georgia derives from the name of the president, which in turn derives from Saint George
Yes, that "little thing" IS AUSTRALIA, a country that's a Continent all by itself!
Oceania is a continent; Australia is par of Oceania.
@@Keler2142 Yes, you're perfectly correct: I was reacting to "that little thing" that's the biggest chunk of Oceania. ;o)
@@Keler2142Oceania is a region, Australia is a continent, the smallest continent, but nevertheless a continent all by itself.
@@miniveedub
Faux : On ne considère pas l’Australie comme un continent. Le continent s’appelle l’Océanie dont l’Australie est un des pays au même titre que la Nouvelle Zélande ou la Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
@@francoisevassy6614 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_(continent)
America needs to get its head out of its own arse
Starting to understand how Trump can get so many votes.
uneducated people tend to follow uneducated people, and based on Trump's comments, like on COVID-19, i must say that guy knows as much as a 9 year old european kid, so i guess these guys all voted on Trump.
how can he not get those votes if the alternative is Biden lmao
Lol he is still better option than Biden and many of the democrats!!. Yeah many people voting for him because the alternative is shite.
The first man pointed Australia and China....
I'm portuguese and my brain froze when I looked at that map, because the World maps in Europe are in other order: Pacific Ocean/America/Atlantic Ocean/Europe,Asia and Africa/Oceania/Pacific Ocean. It took me a while to understand why Africa seemed so small and to realize the order of that map was not the same🤣
exactly and thank you because you had mentioned a name on the different parts of the world I could not quite remember those parts of the world is correct. It’s like a world is mirrored, but countries are not mirrored, but I know what you mean. I can really not understand no other people in you that has seen it, another point of view on the map would be used to see in Europe🤣
Just goes to show how insular Americans are. Can't believe the poster was unable to identify Australia. The people on here cannot even identify continents, let alone countries.
Australia. Seriously, how can people not know Australia?
I know all the continents. All the European, South American, North American countries, most African, Asian and Oceanian countries. I am an average European.
American ignorance, the gift that keeps on giving
This to me is total ignorance. Even when I was in school in Holland many years ago, I'm 80 now, we were taught this . We knew countries with their place on the map and their principal cities. It was factual knowledge for us. It seems that your American schooling is not geared into general knowledge.your question answer is Australia.
The country he pointed out as Africa is Australia
That's a triple whammy! 😂
@@Snaakie83 To add insult to injury, Africa is not a country.
And Australia is a freaking CONTINENT. Oceania is NOT.
@@lolasmith1581Australia the country is the biggest landmass on Australia the continent. The continent Australia also includes PNG and multiple island groups. The confusion comes from both having the same name, but they are different things.
Better than on another video where the guy pointed to us (Australia) and thought we were North Korea!
Australia is not only recognizable, as it is the only continent that is also an island.
she said a country and he answered with Africa and Europe 😂🤣😅that's where i left the chat
I can remember some years ago when there was trouble between the USA and Iran and American people shown a world map like this. Then asked where would they attack if they had to attack Iran. If they had their way Australia would have been absolutel;y obliterated.
Some people don't even try. They see the map, they hear the question and are so convinced that they will not be able to answer it that they do not answer it to congratulate themselves on being right about at least one thing (the fact of knowing nothing) while they themselves would also be surprised to know, in reality, more than they believe.
That is so embarrassing. My 11 year old granddaughter can do better than that, but then again we are European.
Wow, this is mind blowing. Do they not teach geography at schools in the US? By 15 years of age I could point out 90% of the worlds' countries on a map. I loved geography in school. European and African countries can be tricky to get correct but if you learn the shapes and which border eachother then it becomes easier.
When l was growing up and going to Primary School(by the way, I'm Australian), when we had History lessons we learned a bit about everything except Australia. You would think, your own country would be the first place you would learn about. What l also find funny, is all the American movies growing up made me think all Americans knew their country; as everything related to America was so full on Patriotic.
Me being an American living in Denmark... watching this while reading out loud pretty much everything she's pointing at 😂 Even going "That's a continent". I think I saw the other day that an American media had placed Sweden where Switzerland is on the map "by mistake".... Like damn... Sweden had moved and was suddenly north of the Alps instead of in Scandinavia! 😂
I’m amazed you didn’t know where Australia is.😊
He knew where it is. He didn't know what it was.
@@thegroovetube3247 it was you I was talking about you didn’t know it was Australia.
Africa is not a country. Surely you jest that was AUSTRALIA. Most primary school children in Australia could answer almost all of those questions.How can so many people be so ignorant?
You're trolling. There's no way you didn't know that's Australia.
When I went to school we even learned states, rivers and cities in America😂 we learned all the country's in Europe and their capital city. We learned of most of the world!😊
Why did she ask their political affiliation? Also the map has been made so the prime meridian is to the left as you look … so I noticed that the where pointing where the countries are an o map when the prime meridian is central
What they don't tell you is how many people they interview before finding these drongos
Maybe, but find at least one is not already normal in fact depending on their social level. These are the people we see in the video who don't seem to have any education or who are too young to have been interested in knowing at least one country name on this map.
On the other hand, showing people who know how to name more than 5 is not necessarily more rewarding and it nevertheless defines a little more the reality of things about the knowledge of the American population.
This video is not really intended to demonstrate the population's knowledge of geography but rather their behavior when faced with a question when in fact they probably have at least one good answer to give but either don't care or don't give no need to think for 2 seconds.
You won't make me believe that these people don't at least know the name of their own country and where it is located if we ask them the question without pointing the camera in their face. Annoyance and panic make us do stupid things and seriously hamper our brains. They see the thing as more insurmountable than it is and begin to complicate their lives unnecessarily in order to be able to respond if they do not prefer to give up directly. This is mainly what this video shows.
@@thesilencer8074
"This video is not really intended to demonstrate the population's knowledge of geography "
Then why is the title "Can Americans Name a Country?"
@@neilthompson8668 Maybe because it's just the question asked in the video and nothing else but nowhere is it said the reasons for this question it seems to me so we are nowhere told the real intentions of this video. It was you (like many others) who chose to interpret it as having to demonstrate the general culture of a population when in reality, there could be lots of other reasons. It's just taking a shortcut to choose this reason over another. But there's no point in being so Manichean about something that isn't even defined in a basic way.
@@thesilencer8074 You said "the video was not intended to demonstrate the population's knowledge of geography but rather their behavior when faced with a question , now you are saying there could be a number of reasons so why did you choose that reason over others.
I have seen lots of video deigned to expose the ignorance of the US population and have often suspected they cherry pick which recording they use.
As for Manichea isn't that a country in Africa or Asia or somewhere?
It's frightening how poor the geographical knowledge of some Americans is. I don't want to generalize, but it begs the question, what is being taught in schools if you don't even recognize the simplest states or countries?
There is a lot of catching up to do.
Sor😊ry, they should be ashamed.
Every primary school classroom here (in Scotland) has a map of the world and most small children can answer these questions. I'm sure this will apply throughout most of the world's education systems. American ,apparent, disinterest in and, lack of basic knowledge of the world they inhabit would be better tolerated by the rest of us if they (their Government) could refrain from it's military involvement in many of the countries that they are unable to identify on a map.
I try not to blame Americans for not knowing basic geography, since they weren't taught it. One idea is to download Google Earth and explore the globe using the app. My geography is pretty good, but I'm still occasionally surprised to find a country is nowhere near where I thought it was. 😂
You finally got it. Australia is correct. Geography is taught in primary school here in Australia, we learn about all the countries of the world.
I'm just gobsmacked. The ignorance is staggering. You can wake me up in the middle of a night and ask me to name countries on a world map and I can name EVERYONE OF THEM. I went through the Dutch education system, incidentally. Real education, instead of the flag-waving, flag-kissing American version. Of course Americans leave school proudly able to fold a flag properly as well. A life-changing skill...
Come on, it's really easy.
It's Austria. 🥳
God save Franz, the Kaiser, our good Kaiser Franz...
😁😁😁
It´s Australia... Grüße aus Wien
I don't buy the notion of Americans being so ignorant of geography because they're hyper-focused on cars, science, or whatever they specialize in.
Geography is taught in ELEMENTARY school, at least in Canada. Seriously, 8-year-olds learn geography. It's taught in elementary, junior high, senior high, and I minored in physical and cultural geography in college, where we had to learn how to do contour mapping and memorize ocean currents.
I remember the prof telling us, "I will never ask you to label the East Australian Current on a map for an exam." When we asked him why, he said, "Because it would be too easy! ... Unless you don't know where Australia is."
So I guess Americans aren't taught geography in school. Given that every map of North America I've seen on TV that's included in scenes of American schools has both Alaska and Hawaii scrunched up together off the coast of Baja California and nothing is labeled above the 49th parallel, I suppose it's not so surprising that many Americans have no clue about where other countries are and can't even find their own on a world map because those other maps have Alaska and Hawaii in the correct places.
Some customer service worker in one of the U.S. states got annoyed with me when I called to straighten out a magazine subscription problem. She asked for my zip code and I said I don't have one. I told her I was calling from Alberta.
She then demanded to know which state Alberta is in. I told her, "It's not a city in a state. It's a province in Canada. I'm Canadian."
Whereupon she said she couldn't help me, because they didn't do "overseas" orders. I told her that Canada is NOT overseas, and in fact, if she went outside and walked far enough north, she'd get to my city and wouldn't have to cross the ocean even once (rivers and lakes, yeah, but no oceans). Plus, I already had an account so obviously they did do orders from Canada. She had a very hard time wrapping her head around that.
You are not ,,overseas'',but ,,overlakes''😆
Dr Phil did an entire show about the US Education system and how it’s failing to the point where 6th graders have the education level of 3rd graders and the teachers will pass them for high school!!
There are only 7 continents and you can't mistake ANY of them for another.
That was Australia btw
🇸🇪 here 🙂. Not to brag, but I just got 82% of US states correct on a online quiz I took just to find out ☺️.
There are 195 countries in the world but only 193 countries are recognised by united nations
Why are you running this when you can’t identify Australia? and you’re only ‘pretty sure’ where Europe is?
77 yo Aussie here. Failed school/school failed me, yet I'm more educated on world event than obviously you are. Why, because the Australian news media, and now social media, actually gives us WORLD news, where the US News only feeds you mushrooms with that which is America.
Question for you: Name one of the nation's aid workers for World Central Kitchen killed this week in Gaza?
Answer: Australian team leader, two American-Canadian and Polish relief workers, three British security personnel, and a Palestinian interpreter.
AUSTRALIA! he pointed to Australia and said Africa.
I believe scientists even in America knows things that are not in their field of research, curiosity is a requiered quality to become one, the fact that average american can't even place the USA on a map is shocking
Hilarious! Is there ‘education’ (aka schools) in USA? Lol
I was 6 when I came to Australia from Denmark not speaking or understanding a single word of English. By age 8, I spoke English, by age 10, I spoke with an Australian accent. This was on purpose, I wanted to ‘fit in’. In that time, I also learned geography and history. By the age of 11 most Australian kids back then (early 1970’s), could name and point out on a world map, every country in the world and we knew the capital cities of at least 80% of the world. It was all a part of learning how we fit in with the rest of the world, and very basic education on Australia….like learning to read and write!
Ps….I knew where Australian was (the US sized island the first guy pointed at) before coming to Australia….so I would have been 5 years old…my actual education had not yet begun.
what is the definition of country ?
Australia mate...a country that has been Americas ally for well over 100 years through thick or thin...😬😵💫😳
The large island, the one you can't identify, is Australia. The teeny, tiny island directly south of it is Tasmania. The group of islands to the south east are New Zealand. Directly north are the islands of Papua New Guinea. These, along with some smaller countries, form the continent of Australia.
The islands to the north west are Indonesia, in Asia.
Australia, including Tasmania is the continent. Australia is a country on the continent of Australia. Australasia is a region that also includes New Zealand and other small neighbouring islands. Oceania is a region that includes Australiasia, New Guinea, and the southern Polynesian islands.
It’s best to look things up before you comment on someone else’s errors. The regions of Australasia and Oceania were declared for the purpose of dividing the world into regions. That is why although Asia the continent stretches from China to Türkiye there is a region called South East Asia that includes Indonesia and the Phillipines and surrounding islands well as countries in the south eastern part of the Asian continent.
They know less than a 12 year old kid here in Sweden about the world!
The first guy selected Australia for Africa and China for Russia.
it's Australia he says there's Africa and he thinks it's China it's Russia Europe he doesn't know just over there that's what he says but you probably don't have a remote idea of where the different countries are either but take your defense would like to say that when we look at water around the world here, it is not usually the way we look at it here in Europe, I don't know what you are doing but sweet and now America is usually to the left of Europe and also the countries so you just have to use your head to wait, that's why it's a little more difficult to get it to fit together and you've guaranteed that, I didn't even just see that it's been swapped around the two times and there are two times that we you can say yes
AUSTRALIA !!!
2:31 You named the USA as a continent? No way...
Well... The Yanks tried, but lost in the war of 1812- 1814...
If you are going to say people in the US don't know countries, then at least know them yourself!
Americans cannot name Caribbean islands, other than Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Bahamas.
The one the first bloke names Africa, is in actuality Australia.
Europe and Africa are NOT contries, continents. What he thougth was Africa is Austarlia.
The lady asked to name any state on the map and no one thought to indicate the United States, maybe they didn't know where it was... in my high school they didn't teach geography, but you are left with the teachings of previous years. You probably have a very "limiting" system if a person is "justified" of not having knowledge in anything other than their own fields of interest.
Which is ironic with all the flag waving and boasting that goes on in the US, you would think every American would be able to point to their own country and you really do have to question what they are teaching them in school that it seems they have limited information on their own country.
What you don't know we learned in grade school way back when.
If you want to learn about geography, I would recommend playing game called Geoguessr online.
Australia 😂😂😂
Australia
A country.... there are 180+
As a European I can name and locate 175.....
Dumb is as dumb does.... Gump
Australia is a continent, a country, and an island, the only piece of land on earth that is all three. I'm so glad i was educated in the 70s and 80s in Australia, my god.
It is also one of the most dangerous islands on the planet in terms of its fauna and flora XD.
@thesilencer8074 That's right, so come for a visit we all manage to survive no problems 🤣.
is this real?
not to mention, that Africa is not a country....they generally don't understand the concept of conitinent and country.
Are you joking? 3:09 It is Australia.
No no no I can take this, do people actually know what their full name is or not, this is stuff you learn when you are nine years old. Not Africa, Australia mate I hope that you were joking if not please lie to me and say you were.
You don't know Australia? Mate. Time to burn us into your mind. We are easily the most recognizable country on the entire map because we are by ourselves floating in the sea.
Watch the last part of the video 😭
@@foreignreacts Yeah, it's very likely. 🦘😂 And the small one next to us is New Zealand.
It’s australia
Yes...but the map 6:13 has been switched around.from its usual presentation...you know that & so do I. But .....its not so clear to Americans
What do you mean?Is it needed to display it on a special way?Just look at the contours and you see see what country it is!
@@jooproos6559 I agree 👍
Yeah I suspect that was by choice to confuse more people, normally a world map is with the centre with Europe in the north and Africa in the south.
Even then, you still expect some of them to at least be able to name their own country, regardless of the positioning of the world map.
It is really terrible when adults cant tell apart whole contintents. Like, come on. That is the easy part when it comes to georgraphy.
I know that generalization is not good but I have a lot of North American friends and geography is not their thing
AUSTRALIA FFS
What kind of map is that? Is it really necessary that the USA must do everything other than the rest of the world? Usually North and South America is on the left and not on the right like here. No wonder the US dudes haven't any clue of Geography.
The 'normal' map is not a 'normal' map. The world can be viewed from different perspectives. The world is not flat. It is a sphere !
Its AUSTRALIA...ITS A COUNTRY AND A CONTINENT ITSELF the country u keep asking of
aSk not aKs...........
What is that? What is that!!? It’s the island nation that’s also a continent! 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺‼️‼️AUSTRALIA‼️‼️🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
An entire continent is laughing at you!
I figured it out at the end of the video. 😢
@@foreignreacts Yes, I reacted when you asked the question otherwise I’d forget to comment.
🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
naaaah this people are not real.
they should be paid actors or idk…
The United States is not a continent .....back to school for you.
😢😢😢😢😢
Weshalb heulste denn? War das etwa eine Neuigkeit für dich?
Sad
JFC
Que pena...
Omg what are they teaching your children in school don’t you have world geography it’s basic knowledge
There are seven continents
Africa
Australia
Antarctica
Asia
Europe
North and South America
Africa is not a country.
Watching from Ireland
Africa isn’t even a country. 🙄
Why ask who they vote for. What has it got to do with world geography? And are there no atlases in USA.
This is how trumpet got elected
It's not a common map they cut out the Pacific and so Polynesia and even Hawaï are missing The board would needed to be much bigger to get the Americas and Eurasia in one area with the Pacific n between. Even the 4.000 Island of Indonesia are missing. And as always Africa is way to small...
Indonesia is definitely on the map
The Pacific is all the blue part in the center of the map.
@@caspervanelli6502 You're right my bad
@@ThomasVWorm Of course it is just sI am just saying the scale is wrong. It should be wider.
@@ThomasVWorm It is impossible to fit a the surface of a sphere on a rectangular map without using some scaling technique. Here they seem to have cut out a piece of the Pacific (that's why Polinesia and Hawaï are missing) and they have made Africa smaller (which is almost always the case on rectangular/square world maps). Africa is about half the size of Eurasia here it seem to be about a third.
The map is not presented in the usual manner.
This map shows east and west reversed.
IE: USA here is in the east and Africa is in the west... obviously to confuse .
COMPLETELY WRONG. You’re used to maps which put the US in the middle. You know, like as if it’s the most important.
The world is a sphere. It can be viewed and mapped from any perspective. Navel-gazing, 'we are the centre of the world' USA people cannot cope with that. What willful ignorance !
@@barnowl.as a German i open up my Diercke Weltatlas and see from left to right bzw west to east North/south America/ Europe
below Europe Africa/ Asia/ Australia
ik its a sphere and i can handle the shown map with no problem but i needed 2seconds to implement the unfamiliar view into my brain
;)
@@GretchenMuller-uw9sl That's alright. At least you know that a world map on a flat surface can be presented in different ways/perspectives. Many people from the USA do not !