Das hat mich so hart getriggert, wie kann man das nicht wissen. I don't understand how someone from germany doesn't know this. I mean it is not like there was a big fing wall demolished through a whole city. And she also said i don't know the translation of "cold war". Really sad, but honestly no surprise. My wife is 28 and i am 42 and sometimes i feel like we "enjoyed" a completely different education system.
@@fzoid3534 it's questionable whether the Soviets were allies of US/UK. Sure they were all fighting against the Germans but I'm not convinced there was much shared interest between the Soviets and the Americans/Brits.
@@listey The leaders of the UK, US and Russia literally had a meeting where they allied together and made many promisses for different scenarios. One of the main reasons of the Cold War was because the US sent their troops in only when the russians were already chasing back the Nazis to Berlin. The russian government nearly entirely blamed the millions of deaths of russian civilians, and polnish soldiers on the US allies playing hide & seek with the french while whole villages were brutally massacred.
I recently saw a YT short that was encouraging Americans to ignore international news, ignore national news and only watch local news. I genuinely couldn't believe it, but apparently they were being serious. It absolutely blows the mind.
I think it's a great idea, as long as they also encourage those same people to NOT leave the USA, and to NOT procreate. Both the USA and the world at large will be better off.
To be fair, she seemed to not have understood what the question was about. Yes, cold war to Kalter Krieg should have been an easy translation, but sometimes you're stuck in the wrong corner of your mind, especially under pressure. She was desperately searching for an actual war in her data base, it seemed. Pretty sure if she was asked the question in German it would have clicked for her - she might still not have had the right answer, though. And also, 1989 was the fall of the Berlin wall, 1990 the year of the reunification of Germany, 1991 the year of the collapse of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia was broken up in 1992, which means there is not one specific year. The answer is kind of wrong and correct at the same time. Schroedinger's cold war... But yes, these things are taught in school and it is a bit embarrassing.
This comparison depends more on the speed at which you press the bell than on knowledge. To test the knowledge, both groups have to answer the questions separately and at the end a comparison is made.
Have you seen the Michael Moore documentation "Where To Invade Next" where he visits a school in Finnland an learns about their education system and the difference between them and America? It's really interesting
ive seen that in usa you get some exams in the school where you get like multiple choice answers and you just gotta circle the right one - if that still happens over there, thats basically the biggest difference, cause in europe we dont get such exams - we always gotta answer everything on our own and therefor can only succeed, if we actually know our shiit, meanwhile you can just guess and complete it :D thats a huge difference
@@KaiHenningsen India is now the most populated country in the world but the video is from 2021 and back then China had a slightly higher population. Well at least officially.
@@u.2b215 For A long time (like when I was young) China had way more than India - I forget the actual numbers, but I think at least double. Then they made the one-child rule.
@@KaiHenningsen I don't think India had half or less of the population of China at least not since the 1800s but they were a distant second for a long time. The one-child rule actually did little to reduce the population in the long run but it did lead to a lot of oppression and now they regret it immensely. They introduced a two and then a three-child rule but there are few takers.
I think education systems all need an update. At the moment it’s based on learning tons of “facts” but you don’t need to know - you can Google, ask Siri or Alexa. Teach people where to look for information, check facts, think for themselves rather than taking things at face value. Read more, spark their interest in a subject and encourage them when they make progress. Languages have always been important and still are but not everyone needs to be fluent- you can talk into your phone and have your words converted to any language and ok it’s not the best way to communicate but it works! We are too stuck in the past when we need skills to appreciate other people’s point of view and be able to put your point across without any anger or attitude. We need to work at helping each other to cope with an ever changing world, how to love and respect people who may be different or have learning difficulties, to share ideas and basically stop leaving others behind, help them to achieve something that makes them feel good about themselves. You do learn such a lot at school that you never use again and for what? To keep you occupied whilst the grownups go to work. If everyone pitched in we could have less work time, be more productive and enjoy more leisure time. All it takes is everyone pulling together.
Ok but I thought Joel was going to participate in the quiz. Imagine: A ‘Jeopardy’ style show with information based on stuff you’ve already reacted to.
Also, traffic is big in Paris and streets narrow… In America you need to stop when your hear ambulance, in France you need to anticipate and move your car fast to open the road…
... now, but there were lots of larger dinosaurs (and maybe even the mammoth?), whereas the blue whale is the largest animal of all time. As for largest living being, that's probably a fungus.
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Funny. But everyone is under time pressure. No time to think. Be fair people.
They are all under the same pressure, so it's fair between them. But it's easier for us, because we watch this in the comfort of our homes without the pressure.
Les européennes sont presque toutes bilingues donc on appris une autre langue d'un autre pays donc semblent plus ouvertes aux autres. Elles répondent rapidement à des questions posées en anglais qui n'est pas leur langue maternelle. Les américaines sont très sympathiques comme beaucoup d'américains. Bravo à toutes pour votre gentillesse. Cordialement from France.
Had the same reaction you did when she said "I knew it bc I lived in Japan"... I mean come one, how does one not know that the Yen is the currency of Japan? xD Edit: wow, these questions are extremely easy.
8:46 It didn't change at all. That's the fun part. There have been copies and redactions but if you put all the versions together you can actually isolate errors. So the bible we have today is 99.9% in it's original state.
USSR broke apart in the end of 1991. That was the end of the Cold War, wasn't it? 1989 was the uproaring movement all over Eastern Europe. End of 1990 was the reunion of Germany.
No, we had first free elections in Poland in 1989. And those were first free elections in all of former Soviet block. Poland was first to break free from RU occupation.
@@aga-ja6855 so what year did Poland get rid of RU occuption then? 1989 was the peaceful revolution in Eastern Germany and 1990 the reunification. There wasn't an election involved. It happened ad-hoc from one day to the next, over night. The will of the majority.
@@wWvwvV Poland fought ruskies for 45 years after WW2 the ruskies were occupying us.We had a war against commies after WW2 finished and later there were uprisings starting as protests every 10 years. The last blow was Solidarity movement created late 1970s that fought till 1989 and its victory in first semi-free elections in June 1989. 10 milion people were members of solidarity and another 10 milion were helping (out 0f 35 milion of citizens in total). Poland was the first to break free. Germans followed together with Czechoslovakia and the rest. It's a common knowledge and you should educate yourself. And yeah we Poles didn't fachieve anything "overnight" because ruskies are our worst, grave enemy and w fight them since hundreds of years dude XD it's also a common, basic knowledge. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Polish_parliamentary_election en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_(Polish_trade_union)
@@wWvwvV Maybe in Germany or whatever you come from it was "ad hoc" dude XD Poland fought for 44 years after in WW2 times we were f*ng given away, against our will, to soviet s*vages (after Germans and Soviets started TOGETHER WW2 by invading us arm in arm in September 1939. As you can imagine as we were civilised and peaceful people, we din't want to live neither under sick German NAzi nor ruskies commie regime). In June 1989 there were first semi-free elections in Poland (first since before WW2) former Soviet block when Solidarity movement won and that was an end of communism. You just followed. We had a war after 1945 against ruskies and their puppets, and every decade that was an uprising starting from protests against regime with repressions, killing of dissidents etc , in the end of 1970s the Solidarity was created and till 1989 it was a constant peaceful uprising till the first free again elections in 1989. The Us actively supported the movement and helped to gain support for it all over the world. Btw West Germans were helping too. So yes, we were the first country to get rid of commies and as Poland was occupied, huge majority of our "communists" were not communists by their believes or free choice so when they had a chance they quickly gave up the power (the transfer was both a peaceful negotiations and a result of elections so called "Rond Table Agreement), transferred into capitalists and started building democracy together with former opposition (we have ca 500 years of democratic traditions so yeah, communist, totalitarian, ruskies f*cked up regime is not sth natural to us, the same as NAzi regime). And we are not the biggest russophobes in the world without a reason XD We fought ruskies for hundreds of years dude, we're the biggest enemies so saying that sth happen overnight in that matter is funny as f..XD It's weird you don't know such basics that Poland was first to break free from commies and that we fought fiercely and that Solidarity was Polish movement (10 millions members, it was said that another 10 million people were helping them out of 35 mil country). YOu surely had this in school as those are basics of modern European history XD en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Polish_parliamentary_election en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_(Polish_trade_union) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Round_Table_Agreement
Isn't that ironic? The young lady from Italy thinks that there is no Italian word for a Mile! The Mile in English is derived from the Latin mille, which is essentially still used in Italian - it is the number One thousand. The Mile was the Roman measure of one thousand steps for a legion on the march.
But there is no local translation for "mile". At least not in my country, for the "American mile". My country only has kilometers, and so on. But the American mile does not exist. Then we have to literally say 1,6 kilometers. (It is so stupid. Why can't they just use kilometers and so on? 😂)
@@johnorchard4 So? Just change it. And how can that be, since only the U.S.A. use the (American) mile? Either way it shows that the kilometer system is far better since the WHOLE world switched to it - but not the U.S.
@@BioLivbanon You missed my irony in your first response - The mile being derived from the distance walked by a Roman Legion in one thousand steps (what is the Italian for one thousand again?), and then you tell a tale that is simply wrong. There are quite a few countries that keep the mile, not least the UK and also Ireland. Just because your country has adopted the metre it does not necessarily mean every one has.
@@johnorchard4 You mean the mile as in 1000 kilometers, right? Yes, that is the kilo-system. But the U.S. has a different one. A incoherent one at that.
Actually in my previous message there is an error. I had read somewhere that "The Lord of the Rings" was in second place, but now I've come clean with a more reliable list. So, if we exclude religious books like the "Bible" or "Koran" and political ones like Mao Zedong's "Little Red Book" and just list fiction, here are the top 5: 1 - Don Quixote (500 million copies sold) 2 - A Tale of Two Cities (200 million copies sold) 3 - The Lord of the Rings (150 million copies sold) 4 - The Little Prince (142 million copies sold) 5 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (107 million copies sold)
She thinks that there's no word for mile in Italian?? One of the most famous motor races in the world is held there - the Mille Miglia! (thousand miles)
I think one of the biggest problems in learning for US contra the World is the attitude of people coming out of the school system!? You will always have an predominant emphasis of the country's history You come from. But and this is a big but, other countries do not think their history is the is the only history or the history of the developed world quite like Americans from US!! You do not find anyone in Europe that will claim their part of the world is the only one, or discuss that for instance Georgia is not a country in Europe but a state in US with a Georgian citizen and unwilling to think they could be wrong!!! I found this US couple in their sixties travelling the world and I think they were retired! They were describing places in Europe they visited and the Airbnb they were renting and complaining that the standard was not to good because there was not a drying machine for their clothe and made the most ridiculous comparison to US I have ever seen!! That because of that and the lack of climate systems in European houses Europe was not as developed as US?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They also complained the local peoples of countries in Europe did not speak English so they should do that more in Europe??????????????? I really don't quit know how to handle such a claim, just the entitlement arrogance and sheer obnoxious self-absorbed attitude shoved into such remark is something unique in US!! I suggested to them that they might try to learn a language other that English???!!! As no surprise they did not respond!!! That being said You should cut these US Americans some slack, they did not fair that bad! They actually was the first ones to get the question about something Europeans should crush it........The Black Death, the plague of the 13 hundred i Europe!! Not like Thrumpfz that claimed Spanish plague was the reason WW I stopped!!!!!!?????????????????????????? You know the Spanish plague from 1918 that was called that because countries was to scared to name it and it was first revealed to be a pandemic in Spain, hence the name! Not to forget WW I enden in 1917 and US soldiers brought this disease to Europe!!!!!! The US school system and it's short comings You can thank the Republicans and peoples like Melinda and Bill Gates the spend a decade to break US teaching in schools and not listening to teachers telling them otherwise and after finding out they were wrong just going; Oh well that was bad and leaving it up to the US Stats to clear up their mess and taxpayers to bear the costs of their Fu..-up for decades after!!!! Thank You for the videos that makes us think!! Kindly the Danish Viking
I think the german girl is maybe too young to know the end of cold war. But this was very important in german history: Mikhail Gorbachev and his perestroika changed a lot for the whole world. And the fall of the iron curtain changed almost everything for germany.
cold war ended in 1991 when the soviet union fell. 1989 often gets confused cause thats when the berlin wall fell which is the ultimate symbol for the end of the cold war
Joel, you really must get into a position of influence. The USA and the world need open minds and solutions to serious and difficult problems. The sample sizes were small and far from representative, the choice of topics very limited, and the first to answer format far from ideal but, taken with other evidence, the score was no surprise.
Der "kalte Krieg" begann am 12. März 1947 und endete am 25. Dezember 1991. 1989 ist demnach falsch! 🇩🇪 (The "cold war" began on March 12, 1947 and ended on December 25, 1991. 1989 is therefore wrong! 🇬🇧)
I used to think that most Americans had a good early education and were open-minded, intellectually curious and good at critical, independent thinking. All the American expats I had worked with or learned to know were like that. Oh, boy have I have a rude awakening over the past years! Now I know that there are more people in Europe who have a basic understanding of Americans civics, the US Constitution and the American legal system than there are in the US. That has been a shocker to me. The pandemic was another thing that layed the ignorance of a lot of Americans bare for the world to observe. It looks to me like the US is politically divided even when it comes to the quality of education for children.
It s not the singular question, it is the sum of all that leaves US-ppl behind. Geography wasn't really asked at all. That would have been a desaster...
I don't drive a car, but I know that most cars transported from the US, especially Bmw, have 160 miles on the speedometer and most Bmw use 260 km/h, the math is very simple,~ 1.6 and you don't have to be very smart.
7:09 the Italian girl doesn't know the italian word for mile?!? They have a world famous car rally "la mille miglia" the 1000 mile rally! so mile (s.) milgio and miles (pl.) are miglia. Shame on her that she has to be told by a German (who lived in Italy for about 4 years).
But there is no local translation for "mile". At least not in my country, for the "American mile". My country only has kilometers, and so on. But the American mile does not exist. Then we have to literally say 1,6 kilometers. (It is so stupid. Why can't they just use kilometers and so on? 😂)
You can‘t just translate mile to mille, because it is a measurement and Not a number. As the correct answer tells you, a mile is 1600 m or 1.6 km and not 1000. By the way, mille is thousand in English and not mile…
You wonder how many times the Bible was changed? It was translated not reinterpreted.I saw that Tom Hanks Movie too but it was based on a Book,not historic Facts.(as far as i know) With todays pandering to Crybullies i wouldnt put my Faith in any new Version of the Bible either to be honest.But then,im not part of the "modern Audience" anyways.
The bible litterly changed with every new king and or pope. With every new copy or "print". It was the favourite past time to censore or change even the core meaning of the bible. Wasnt there a king that got scared about leaving the word "Tyrann" in the bible and changed it cause it can be referred to kings. So if anybody says the bible is the absolut truth they are as right as Eve eating the apple. Idiots preaching things they know are at least 99% made up, by guys that bragged about changing it. Not even like God is made up, more like the content of the bible is litterly made up and revised for 1000 of years. I find that so funny. Since a time i always have a little laugh when i hear someone actually preaching Bible content. (Btw tora or qur´an is pretty much same, just that the method of changing was different.)
They didn´t pick a very good European team as well. And why do Americans always say Madagascar on any geographical question? That seems like an obsession.
@@winterlinde5395is that really a major part of american education in geographical context? Then there should really be significant makeover in american education.
@@tinobommelino3376 I just thought since geography classes in school seem to be scarce, that’s where they all have heard of Madagascar, when they were little. Just a wild guess.
Communism broke apart in 1989 when Poland after a struggle lasting for 44 years (since 1945) broke free from soviet occupation. In June 1989 there were first semi-free elections in former soviet occupied bloc, won by Solidarity movement under Lech Walesa. That was a greatest victory of democracy in this part of the world and a destruction of oppressive, communist regime that was not chosen by Poland or any country that was in soviet zone of influence. Solidarity fought for 10 years to achieve that (US was supporting its struggle and e.g. introduced sanctions on USSR and communist regime in Poland after they tried to destroy the Solidarity moment in 1980/81) and before that in Poland there was an uprising every decade against ruskies oppressors and their stupid communism (we hate communism in Poland till today, calling sb a "communist" is the biggest slander, similarly like in the US XD). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_(Polish_trade_union) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Polish_parliamentary_election
The German didn't know when the end of the cold war was! Big disappointment! 😢 😢
Das hat mich so hart getriggert, wie kann man das nicht wissen.
I don't understand how someone from germany doesn't know this. I mean it is not like there was a big fing wall demolished through a whole city.
And she also said i don't know the translation of "cold war".
Really sad, but honestly no surprise. My wife is 28 and i am 42 and sometimes i feel like we "enjoyed" a completely different education system.
I've seen the original video before and this part still triggers me.
Same in a similar video when they all said that Russia wasn't an ally in WWII
@@fzoid3534 😨
@@fzoid3534 it's questionable whether the Soviets were allies of US/UK. Sure they were all fighting against the Germans but I'm not convinced there was much shared interest between the Soviets and the Americans/Brits.
@@listey The leaders of the UK, US and Russia literally had a meeting where they allied together and made many promisses for different scenarios. One of the main reasons of the Cold War was because the US sent their troops in only when the russians were already chasing back the Nazis to Berlin. The russian government nearly entirely blamed the millions of deaths of russian civilians, and polnish soldiers on the US allies playing hide & seek with the french while whole villages were brutally massacred.
I will never stop saying how Americans dealing with geography is a subgenre of content.
The show showes uswhat we need to see.It´s 3 young woman vs 2 young woman, thus showing us the difference between cultures...
I recently saw a YT short that was encouraging Americans to ignore international news, ignore national news and only watch local news. I genuinely couldn't believe it, but apparently they were being serious. It absolutely blows the mind.
I think it's a great idea, as long as they also encourage those same people to NOT leave the USA, and to NOT procreate. Both the USA and the world at large will be better off.
Ngl. Not knowing when the cold war ends as a german is the biggest fail in that video. And wtf? 1920? 1950? D:
To be fair, she seemed to not have understood what the question was about.
Yes, cold war to Kalter Krieg should have been an easy translation, but sometimes you're stuck in the wrong corner of your mind, especially under pressure. She was desperately searching for an actual war in her data base, it seemed. Pretty sure if she was asked the question in German it would have clicked for her - she might still not have had the right answer, though.
And also, 1989 was the fall of the Berlin wall, 1990 the year of the reunification of Germany, 1991 the year of the collapse of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia was broken up in 1992, which means there is not one specific year. The answer is kind of wrong and correct at the same time. Schroedinger's cold war...
But yes, these things are taught in school and it is a bit embarrassing.
9:56 Bless her, she was being so polite and diplomatic about the way she worded that.
My thoughts exactly. She did her best not to offend the US education system.
This comparison depends more on the speed at which you press the bell than on knowledge. To test the knowledge, both groups have to answer the questions separately and at the end a comparison is made.
The Score at the End is because of that completely worthless
Have you seen the Michael Moore documentation "Where To Invade Next" where he visits a school in Finnland an learns about their education system and the difference between them and America? It's really interesting
9:03 - No, you have three. Two were guessed. (Miles + Cold War) 🤷♂🤔
ive seen that in usa you get some exams in the school where you get like multiple choice answers and you just gotta circle the right one - if that still happens over there, thats basically the biggest difference, cause in europe we dont get such exams - we always gotta answer everything on our own and therefor can only succeed, if we actually know our shiit, meanwhile you can just guess and complete it :D thats a huge difference
actually India recently surpassed China in population
I was literally thinking "One of China or India, I don't know who has more right now".
@@KaiHenningsen India is now the most populated country in the world but the video is from 2021 and back then China had a slightly higher population. Well at least officially.
@@u.2b215 For A long time (like when I was young) China had way more than India - I forget the actual numbers, but I think at least double.
Then they made the one-child rule.
@@KaiHenningsen I don't think India had half or less of the population of China at least not since the 1800s but they were a distant second for a long time. The one-child rule actually did little to reduce the population in the long run but it did lead to a lot of oppression and now they regret it immensely. They introduced a two and then a three-child rule but there are few takers.
@@u.2b215 It did not reduce the population, but it slowed its growth.
8:14 In Germany you learn when the Cold War ended because the Inner German Wall fell in november 1989.
In 1989, in June there were first democratic elections in Poland since before WW2. The wall was destroyed later, in autumn.
Oops. The cold war ended 25th December 1991. 🤔🇺🇸🇬🇧💜
I think education systems all need an update. At the moment it’s based on learning tons of “facts” but you don’t need to know - you can Google, ask Siri or Alexa. Teach people where to look for information, check facts, think for themselves rather than taking things at face value. Read more, spark their interest in a subject and encourage them when they make progress. Languages have always been important and still are but not everyone needs to be fluent- you can talk into your phone and have your words converted to any language and ok it’s not the best way to communicate but it works! We are too stuck in the past when we need skills to appreciate other people’s point of view and be able to put your point across without any anger or attitude. We need to work at helping each other to cope with an ever changing world, how to love and respect people who may be different or have learning difficulties, to share ideas and basically stop leaving others behind, help them to achieve something that makes them feel good about themselves. You do learn such a lot at school that you never use again and for what? To keep you occupied whilst the grownups go to work. If everyone pitched in we could have less work time, be more productive and enjoy more leisure time. All it takes is everyone pulling together.
I liked the video that the young women so international and had fun together.There learned from each other country.🙂👍
Ok but I thought Joel was going to participate in the quiz. Imagine: A ‘Jeopardy’ style show with information based on stuff you’ve already reacted to.
Hi Joel , I enjoyed watching this video (pierre)
Also, traffic is big in Paris and streets narrow… In America you need to stop when your hear ambulance, in France you need to anticipate and move your car fast to open the road…
Hello Joel. The sample size of 2 or 3 people shows it is just for fun and to get you to laugh. It was quite amusing though.
All of them should educate for real. Those questions were easy as heck
3:56 Joel’s face lmao
Although in her defence, it’s one of the larger terrestrial creatures.
... now, but there were lots of larger dinosaurs (and maybe even the mammoth?), whereas the blue whale is the largest animal of all time. As for largest living being, that's probably a fungus.
Funny. But everyone is under time pressure. No time to think. Be fair people.
They are all under the same pressure, so it's fair between them. But it's easier for us, because we watch this in the comfort of our homes without the pressure.
the cold war never ended tho?? but its sad to not say 1989 fast...it effects every live on earth..no matter where we live
The russian are still on it.
but the cold war ended in '91
Les européennes sont presque toutes bilingues donc on appris une autre langue d'un autre pays donc semblent plus ouvertes aux autres. Elles répondent rapidement à des questions posées en anglais qui n'est pas leur langue maternelle. Les américaines sont très sympathiques comme beaucoup d'américains. Bravo à toutes pour votre gentillesse. Cordialement from France.
De donde las han sacado?
Bro your look at 3:56 is just priceless xD
the vertikan is not a teritory of italy its a souverin state buts its inside rome so it arounded by italy.
yt oldie but goldie: Boyinaband - Don't Stay In School
time that got another react wave
Had the same reaction you did when she said "I knew it bc I lived in Japan"... I mean come one, how does one not know that the Yen is the currency of Japan? xD
Edit: wow, these questions are extremely easy.
When is the video from? India has the biggest population as of sometime in 2023.
That actually changes every other month. It's like India and China have a private battle on who's gonna pop out babies faster.
I believe 1.609 km in mile but I convert more accurate as how many cyclists use km, yes I know metric but long distance I use miles
8:46 It didn't change at all. That's the fun part. There have been copies and redactions but if you put all the versions together you can actually isolate errors. So the bible we have today is 99.9% in it's original state.
Can you please react to German Slang by Easygerman?
Not knowing some things doesn't automatically make you stupid. It just means there might be something else interesting you could learn.
How does the German not know what the cold war was and when it ends it was literally in her Country!
The cold war was mainly between america and russia. The american girls should have known it much more.
And on top, all the European girls take it in english, could the Americans participate at a Quiz in another language? I think the most couldn´t.
03:38 _'ANIAML'??_ um, think the producers should check their spelling before having a knowledge quiz 😂😂
Along with 'dummer' rather than 'dumber'.
Muchas gracias por esto. No soy tonto jajajja
USSR broke apart in the end of 1991. That was the end of the Cold War, wasn't it? 1989 was the uproaring movement all over Eastern Europe. End of 1990 was the reunion of Germany.
No, we had first free elections in Poland in 1989. And those were first free elections in all of former Soviet block. Poland was first to break free from RU occupation.
@@aga-ja6855 so what year did Poland get rid of RU occuption then? 1989 was the peaceful revolution in Eastern Germany and 1990 the reunification. There wasn't an election involved. It happened ad-hoc from one day to the next, over night. The will of the majority.
@@wWvwvV Poland fought ruskies for 45 years after WW2 the ruskies were occupying us.We had a war against commies after WW2 finished and later there were uprisings starting as protests every 10 years. The last blow was Solidarity movement created late 1970s that fought till 1989 and its victory in first semi-free elections in June 1989. 10 milion people were members of solidarity and another 10 milion were helping (out 0f 35 milion of citizens in total). Poland was the first to break free. Germans followed together with Czechoslovakia and the rest. It's a common knowledge and you should educate yourself. And yeah we Poles didn't fachieve anything "overnight" because ruskies are our worst, grave enemy and w fight them since hundreds of years dude XD it's also a common, basic knowledge.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Polish_parliamentary_election
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_(Polish_trade_union)
@@wWvwvV Maybe in Germany or whatever you come from it was "ad hoc" dude XD Poland fought for 44 years after in WW2 times we were f*ng given away, against our will, to soviet s*vages (after Germans and Soviets started TOGETHER WW2 by invading us arm in arm in September 1939. As you can imagine as we were civilised and peaceful people, we din't want to live neither under sick German NAzi nor ruskies commie regime). In June 1989 there were first semi-free elections in Poland (first since before WW2) former Soviet block when Solidarity movement won and that was an end of communism. You just followed. We had a war after 1945 against ruskies and their puppets, and every decade that was an uprising starting from protests against regime with repressions, killing of dissidents etc , in the end of 1970s the Solidarity was created and till 1989 it was a constant peaceful uprising till the first free again elections in 1989. The Us actively supported the movement and helped to gain support for it all over the world. Btw West Germans were helping too.
So yes, we were the first country to get rid of commies and as Poland was occupied, huge majority of our "communists" were not communists by their believes or free choice so when they had a chance they quickly gave up the power (the transfer was both a peaceful negotiations and a result of elections so called "Rond Table Agreement), transferred into capitalists and started building democracy together with former opposition (we have ca 500 years of democratic traditions so yeah, communist, totalitarian, ruskies f*cked up regime is not sth natural to us, the same as NAzi regime). And we are not the biggest russophobes in the world without a reason XD We fought ruskies for hundreds of years dude, we're the biggest enemies so saying that sth happen overnight in that matter is funny as f..XD
It's weird you don't know such basics that Poland was first to break free from commies and that we fought fiercely and that Solidarity was Polish movement (10 millions members, it was said that another 10 million people were helping them out of 35 mil country). YOu surely had this in school as those are basics of modern European history XD
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Polish_parliamentary_election
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_(Polish_trade_union)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Round_Table_Agreement
I don't see my own replies, don't know if they disappear or not.
I knew most of the answers but wouldn't have won because I'm slow.
Isn't that ironic? The young lady from Italy thinks that there is no Italian word for a Mile! The Mile in English is derived from the Latin mille, which is essentially still used in Italian - it is the number One thousand. The Mile was the Roman measure of one thousand steps for a legion on the march.
But there is no local translation for "mile". At least not in my country, for the "American mile".
My country only has kilometers, and so on. But the American mile does not exist. Then we have to literally say 1,6 kilometers.
(It is so stupid. Why can't they just use kilometers and so on? 😂)
@@BioLivbanon Well the mile has lasted two thousand years so far, the kilometre is a newcomer, a mere two Hundred
@@johnorchard4 So? Just change it. And how can that be, since only the U.S.A. use the (American) mile?
Either way it shows that the kilometer system is far better since the WHOLE world switched to it - but not the U.S.
@@BioLivbanon You missed my irony in your first response - The mile being derived from the distance walked by a Roman Legion in one thousand steps (what is the Italian for one thousand again?), and then you tell a tale that is simply wrong. There are quite a few countries that keep the mile, not least the UK and also Ireland. Just because your country has adopted the metre it does not necessarily mean every one has.
@@johnorchard4 You mean the mile as in 1000 kilometers, right? Yes, that is the kilo-system.
But the U.S. has a different one. A incoherent one at that.
german should've known the date for the end of the cold war
@MoreJps to your knowledge, the second best selling book of all times is "The Lord of the Rings", not Harry Potter 😊
Actually in my previous message there is an error. I had read somewhere that "The Lord of the Rings" was in second place, but now I've come clean with a more reliable list. So, if we exclude religious books like the "Bible" or "Koran" and political ones like Mao Zedong's "Little Red Book" and just list fiction, here are the top 5:
1 - Don Quixote (500 million copies sold)
2 - A Tale of Two Cities (200 million copies sold)
3 - The Lord of the Rings (150 million copies sold)
4 - The Little Prince (142 million copies sold)
5 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (107 million copies sold)
She thinks that there's no word for mile in Italian?? One of the most famous motor races in the world is held there - the Mille Miglia! (thousand miles)
I think one of the biggest problems in learning for US contra the World is the attitude of people coming out of the school system!?
You will always have an predominant emphasis of the country's history You come from.
But and this is a big but, other countries do not think their history is the is the only history or the history of the developed world quite like Americans from US!!
You do not find anyone in Europe that will claim their part of the world is the only one, or discuss that for instance Georgia is not a country in Europe but a state in US with a Georgian citizen and unwilling to think they could be wrong!!!
I found this US couple in their sixties travelling the world and I think they were retired!
They were describing places in Europe they visited and the Airbnb they were renting and complaining that the standard was not to good because there was not a drying machine for their clothe and made the most ridiculous comparison to US I have ever seen!!
That because of that and the lack of climate systems in European houses Europe was not as developed as US?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They also complained the local peoples of countries in Europe did not speak English so they should do that more in Europe???????????????
I really don't quit know how to handle such a claim, just the entitlement arrogance and sheer obnoxious self-absorbed attitude shoved into such remark is something unique in US!!
I suggested to them that they might try to learn a language other that English???!!!
As no surprise they did not respond!!!
That being said You should cut these US Americans some slack, they did not fair that bad!
They actually was the first ones to get the question about something Europeans should crush it........The Black Death, the plague of the 13 hundred i Europe!!
Not like Thrumpfz that claimed Spanish plague was the reason WW I stopped!!!!!!??????????????????????????
You know the Spanish plague from 1918 that was called that because countries was to scared to name it and it was first revealed to be a pandemic in Spain, hence the name!
Not to forget WW I enden in 1917 and US soldiers brought this disease to Europe!!!!!!
The US school system and it's short comings You can thank the Republicans and peoples like Melinda and Bill Gates the spend a decade to break US teaching in schools and not listening to teachers telling them otherwise and after finding out they were wrong just going; Oh well that was bad and leaving it up to the US Stats to clear up their mess and taxpayers to bear the costs of their Fu..-up for decades after!!!!
Thank You for the videos that makes us think!!
Kindly the Danish Viking
I think the german girl is maybe too young to know the end of cold war. But this was very important in german history: Mikhail Gorbachev and his perestroika changed a lot for the whole world. And the fall of the iron curtain changed almost everything for germany.
If you dont remember the fall of the Berlin Wall or at least know it your not german
Seguro universitarias
The German girl didn't know and remember the 'Berlin wall Fall'.... wtf! I agree that the American education system sucks.
cold war ended in 1991 when the soviet union fell. 1989 often gets confused cause thats when the berlin wall fell which is the ultimate symbol for the end of the cold war
Let's be honest, none of them really knew anything. They all guessed their way through.
Joel, you really must get into a position of influence. The USA and the world need open minds and solutions to serious and difficult problems.
The sample sizes were small and far from representative, the choice of topics very limited, and the first to answer format far from ideal but, taken with other evidence, the score was no surprise.
time for a shave dude!
Der "kalte Krieg" begann am 12. März 1947 und endete am 25. Dezember 1991. 1989 ist demnach falsch! 🇩🇪 (The "cold war" began on March 12, 1947 and ended on December 25, 1991. 1989 is therefore wrong! 🇬🇧)
Como una inglesa no sabe que son las millas?. Yo no lo sé
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Indoctrination prioritised over education. A mix of personal experience and guesswork seemed to pick up a lot of slack.
I used to think that most Americans had a good early education and were open-minded, intellectually curious and good at critical, independent thinking. All the American expats I had worked with or learned to know were like that. Oh, boy have I have a rude awakening over the past years! Now I know that there are more people in Europe who have a basic understanding of Americans civics, the US Constitution and the American legal system than there are in the US. That has been a shocker to me. The pandemic was another thing that layed the ignorance of a lot of Americans bare for the world to observe. It looks to me like the US is politically divided even when it comes to the quality of education for children.
The Cold War didn’t end really end until 1992.
Why is bro so damn cute
What's the largest aniaml? Sorry I have no idea. The largest animal is the blue whale. 🤔🇺🇸🇬🇧💜
Has Joel ever addressed his incredibly strange and suspicious non-reaction to finding out he was 11% Jewish during his DNA test video?!
It starts with the fact that Americans always talk about Americans when they actually only mean US Americans
Al final seré yo más atento. Son un poco malas todas? No se no saber que la ballena es ..
It s not the singular question, it is the sum of all that leaves US-ppl behind. Geography wasn't really asked at all. That would have been a desaster...
I don't drive a car, but I know that most cars transported from the US, especially Bmw, have 160 miles on the speedometer and most Bmw use 260 km/h, the math is very simple,~ 1.6 and you don't have to be very smart.
7:09 the Italian girl doesn't know the italian word for mile?!? They have a world famous car rally "la mille miglia" the 1000 mile rally!
so mile (s.) milgio and miles (pl.) are miglia.
Shame on her that she has to be told by a German (who lived in Italy for about 4 years).
Lol
Yeah, same for the German girl, didn't know and remember the 'Berlin wall Fall'.... wtf!
But there is no local translation for "mile". At least not in my country, for the "American mile".
My country only has kilometers, and so on. But the American mile does not exist. Then we have to literally say 1,6 kilometers.
(It is so stupid. Why can't they just use kilometers and so on? 😂)
You can‘t just translate mile to mille, because it is a measurement and Not a number. As the correct answer tells you, a mile is 1600 m or 1.6 km and not 1000. By the way, mille is thousand in English and not mile…
@@monicakappeler1347 you mixed it up, I translated miles to miglia, not mille. The rally is named mille miglia = 1000 miles
In her first answer the UK girl said "limitate". That is not even a word. Epic dumbness!
I thought it was a word, this made me unsure (since I am not a native english speaker). But I googled it and it is a word.
I think she did misspeak, but limitate is a real word, so who is dumb?
You wonder how many times the Bible was changed?
It was translated not reinterpreted.I saw that Tom Hanks Movie too but it was based on a Book,not historic Facts.(as far as i know)
With todays pandering to Crybullies i wouldnt put my Faith in any new Version of the Bible either to be honest.But then,im not part of the "modern Audience" anyways.
The bible litterly changed with every new king and or pope. With every new copy or "print".
It was the favourite past time to censore or change even the core meaning of the bible.
Wasnt there a king that got scared about leaving the word "Tyrann" in the bible and changed it cause it can be referred to kings. So if anybody says the bible is the absolut truth they are as right as Eve eating the apple. Idiots preaching things they know are at least 99% made up, by guys that bragged about changing it. Not even like God is made up, more like the content of the bible is litterly made up and revised for 1000 of years. I find that so funny. Since a time i always have a little laugh when i hear someone actually preaching Bible content. (Btw tora or qur´an is pretty much same, just that the method of changing was different.)
They didn´t pick a very good European team as well. And why do Americans always say Madagascar on any geographical question? That seems like an obsession.
Maybe because of the animated movie Penguins of Madagascar 😏
@@winterlinde5395is that really a major part of american education in geographical context? Then there should really be significant makeover in american education.
@@tinobommelino3376 I just thought since geography classes in school seem to be scarce, that’s where they all have heard of Madagascar, when they were little. Just a wild guess.
so they can guess as often as they want....
useless quiz.
Pretty dogshit quiz lmao
Communism broke apart in 1989 when Poland after a struggle lasting for 44 years (since 1945) broke free from soviet occupation. In June 1989 there were first semi-free elections in former soviet occupied bloc, won by Solidarity movement under Lech Walesa. That was a greatest victory of democracy in this part of the world and a destruction of oppressive, communist regime that was not chosen by Poland or any country that was in soviet zone of influence. Solidarity fought for 10 years to achieve that (US was supporting its struggle and e.g. introduced sanctions on USSR and communist regime in Poland after they tried to destroy the Solidarity moment in 1980/81) and before that in Poland there was an uprising every decade against ruskies oppressors and their stupid communism (we hate communism in Poland till today, calling sb a "communist" is the biggest slander, similarly like in the US XD).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_(Polish_trade_union)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Polish_parliamentary_election