American reacts to 'Americans are Dumber than the Rest of the World'
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It actually is India now, the country with the largest population. Maybe not at the time of shooting the original video, but as of now, yes.
wiki says China. Are they wrong? It is mighty close
@@funlovincop Wikipedia united nations say india en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_(United_Nations) (just recently)
@@funlovincop it depends on the time. If you look at numbers from the year 2020 or 2021, China was still considered to be the country with the largest population. But now India has overtaken Cina in this statistic and has officially the largest population.
Depends when you count.
China 2020: 1.412 billion (Chinese count)
India 2023: 1.429 billion
Yes India has more but the numbers are close and 3 years apart, next counting in China is in 2030
Definitely India, it's actually frightening how their population has grown despite the poverty and the class divides! 😥
I don't think we only learn this at school. From reading, following the news and talking to people from other countries we learn about the world from childhood. What's weird about Americans is the lack of curiosity.
and the inability to adapt the correct answer once its offered and confirmed ... seriously frightening how many murricans get corrected and still get back to their wrong idea a short time later.
I literally had to explain some murrican exchange students multiple times over a few weeks that Germany was in fact split into 3 German nations after WW2 and had 2 reunifications. I noticed many foreigners dont know that, but only Americans had real trouble to rewrite whatever they learned once ... something the exchange students from other nations managed with ease.
This is particularly surprising for a country where the majority of the population, apart from the native American people, is made up of immigrants from all over the world.
Brainwashing
@@diedampfbrasse98 technically, after WW2 Germany was split into 4, not 3. At the Potsdam Conference (17 July to 2 August 1945), after Germany's unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945, the Allies officially divided Germany into the four military occupation zones - France in the southwest, the United Kingdom in the northwest, the United States in the south, and the Soviet Union in the east.
@@diedampfbrasse98germany also wasn’t split into 3 nations. Like the other comment said it was occupied by the Allies, but the occupation zones of france, the uk and the us were never actually countries (and definitely not nations, since all Germans were still part of the German nation, even the ones in the Gdr). So no there weren’t to reunifications.
True, we facepalm when US Americans talk about politics that way. Or pretty much any subject. It's not the ignorance that's rubbing us the wrong way, it's the arrogance, unwarranted pride and doubling down on things they don't really know a whole lot about. Some of them, that is.
Like voting for really stupid politicians.
@@grahvis This is a UK and USA problem
@@MrKingkz .
I'll admit that some UK politicians are not the brightest, but for example, anyone who started telling the public that God had spoken to him and called him a modern Moses, would very soon not have a political career
@@grahvis you should check out are guys parliament it's been a game of musical chairs the last 3 prime Ministers we didn't Even vote for and the worst thing is are countrys like to take tips from each other so I think it's only going to get worse
@@MrKingkz Well he might be a little bit smarter than McDonald's Trump, but Macron is also a shame for France... The "front liberal back fascist" authoritarian...
Not knowing something is not bad or embarrassing at all, however being unwilling to learn or at least being curious to other perspectives, is.
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The problem with the USA in general is that ppl don’t know basic information but believe they know everything.
Exactly 🤙
Love it when that Italian guy said, he can't answer because of his limited vocabulary. Just a quick reminder that all these videos are in English because its (most often) the only language Americans understand. Just a meta level decision about being smart.... Next quiz in Italian and he would easily win against them all simultaneously :D
Best part about being european: You are at least bilingual!
@@zumogerstubchen2340 except if you're British or French 😅
The largest native English speaking population lives in India, not US. And it's because of the British that English has become an international language, not Americans.
What do you mean? Pretty much everybody in French speaks at least French and English. @@Tarkienn
@@michalhejny8086In alsace, almost everyone speaks french and german, and sometimes english
The girl who said: "Angela Merkel is like our Hillary Clinton."
Just no. No. No.
The main difference I can think of is that one won an election and the other didn't. Both have massive evidence of corruption against them and both have the power to make people disappear...and both make terrible political decisions. Can you point out any other differences that matter?
I screamed the same thing
the dumbest thing about this is the buzzer...you cant ask a yes/no question with 2 people and a buzzer
they should be writing down the answers and showing them at the same time
Yeah and having ABCD options on any questions is just bad. We never had those in school either in my country. You either know the answer or you are missing knowledge.
I didnt know how bad I was at geography until I moved to Europe. I had to download an app to relearn everything. Not embarrased to admit it.
Insight is always a good thing! So👍
as a ca. 13 years old student in switzerland, we had to learn all 50 US states and their capitol, ....i almost remember still every state on the map (i am now 46 and never went to the US), ....we had to know basic geography, mountains, rivers and lthe big lakes in the US. ....and the history of course.
in addition to the swiss and world history, geography etc.
and in addition to german, french and english, cause we speak swiss german here.
the US education is a scam, sorry. ..... we not pay anything then some books. and a very small fee for the university.
@@charity4everDon't you learn Italian as you speak it in Ticino?
@@Alex-ds6sw I think it's enough to learn German and French and English first ...it's obligatory here for everyone.... You can choose in addition, Italian or Spain, Portuguese or even Latin.
Thanks.... I am actually around 40% Prozent Italian ...and speak some Italian too. Even i not have a relationship or known family in Italy at all, sadly.
I anyway enjoy the Asian part of the world more.
@@charity4ever So very similar to Germany and Austria then. Can you also choose Romansh?
the end of the video hit hard "it doesn't even matter because we make really good movies" cant even remember the last Hollywood movie i considered good or even very good.
shame on you...i was gonna say that ! :)
I remember an American telling me we couldn't make films in England, like they do in America.
Then gave Star Wars as an example 🤔
@@101steel4 Honestly though, not making films like they do in America is a huge compliment. They're very good at doing the same movie over and over, shame it's not good movies they churn out more than once in a while.
Never watched shawshank redemption then? Although I forgot the 90s were now 30 years ago, but still it's a fairly recent good US film
@@samuelpinder1215 Shawshank is not recent my dude 😂😂
the crazy thing is, most of them for me arent "foreign" politics or stuff like that ... its not even stuff u learn in education, honestly nothing of that is really learned at school ... its like the lowest level of basic knowledge a 12 year olds automaticly gets by existing on this planet xD
@@wannes9125but did you learn which ones the biggest?
@@lulaa123the biggest what??
@@Touchedbynature304 ocean
The person I answered deleted their comment I think
We learnt those things in Aus education 🫠.
Another tricky question will be: Were Germany and USSR allies during WWII? Yes, in the beginning when they invaded Poland which started WWII.
They were no allies but agreed to not fight each other.
@@reinhard8053 yeah ..... , they just agreed to split a country in two attacking it. (in fact more acording to Ribentrop Molotov pact).
@@apclaudiu And also have the same kind of agreement with fascist Japan until April 1945.
@@reinhard8053 It's generally called 'A Non-Aggression Pact', and you are correct.
it was still cooperation during invasion of poland@@reinhard8053
You're smart, Ryan. Otherwise it wouldn't bother you so much that you were ignorant on the one question. Intelligence and ignorance are two different things. :)
It's not a question of intelligence, but of education which depends on your socioeconomic background. In Germany as well, only not as much as in the US. But we're getting there..
i want to add that its harder for "the world" because a few have to think in english,- revert it to their language, than know the answer in their language, and have to convert it to englisch ... for the answer here.
this video would be more fair, if they used only englisch language countries, or diverse the questioned people in seprate chambers where each read the questions in their mother tongue - ... than answer the questions as fast as possible and in the end the timer would decide which was better and which worse.
Not necessarily, once you reach a certain level of proficiency in another language you begin to think in that language when using it, so you don't translate back and forth.
@@vrenakjust what I was going to say. I speak and think in 3 languages
Beside, the test is really only about "how fast can you answer this question" which isn't the fairest way to answer a question. It is one way but not the only one. This test gives point to whoever answered first, even if both could answer correctly.
When I was about 10 yo, I really enjoyed looking through the big world atlas we had. It doesn't take very long to learn all the countries and capitals.
learning them is easy remembering them, specially at my age (69) is something else.
when we were kids, if all you had pens/pencils and a notebook/sheets of paper, you could play at least 3 games as a group or in pairs, or keep score for a gazillion others ( Scrabble, rummy, Yatzee, our version of Uno played with poker cards, etc.). The most popular games were Hangman, Tic-Tac-Toe ( or as we called it, X and O), or my personal favorite, TOMAPANT ( it's basically a game where you make a table and you have to write the names of a country, a city/town, mountains, water, plants, animals, names of people and the last T is for the Total. You had to write all of those starting with one letter of the alphabet, either from the start or a randomly chosen one. Like for example if you decided to play random, you had to pick a letter from a hat and got with that, or just play in order starting from A. The score went from 5 to 50 if I recall correctly, for each category; I think I met this game online too, under the name " the world game" , but I'm not 100% sure). Oh and in school, in English or French class, if the teacher had papers to grade, she'd start off a game of " last letter, next word" on the blackboard and the winner got a 10 at the end of the class.
Me too, if it wasn't an atlas it was an encyclopaedia, that's why I think there's no excuse and especially with house easy it is to get information these days
@@m0t0b33On a geography trip we did all countries alphabetically, just used a kids notes app to not waste the notepads if needed
@@samuelpinder1215 well we didn't even have cellphones back then ( about 20 years ago), much less devices with apps, so we kinda needed the pen and paper route. But I feel like it might be more challenging on a computer/smartphone/tablet, cause you have to type it all instead of handwriting (which imo is faster, and it gets you more points in the game).
To all stupid people like me, I had to look this up: "The word country can be used to mean the same thing as state, sovereign state, or nation-state. It can also be used in a less political manner to refer to a region or cultural area that has no governmental status."
no
That's how the word "country" can be used. It's not the definition of a country.
Country: a nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory.
You're right, the word state is used to refer to countries, "the state" is also used to refer to the government of a country. But in the case of Palestine it's not an independent country because it's not recognized by the UN as one, same as Taiwan. According to the UN, which consists of basically every country in the world, Palestine is part of Israel just as Taiwan is a part of China. Not saying the UN is always right or anything, but it is the official agreed upon status of these regions.
@@johnp5990 A state is not always a country, but a country is always a state, it's an understandable mix up by OP. No reason to be rude about it, at least they took the time to look something up.
@@daniel4647 The UN does absolutely not recognize Palestine as a part of Israel. The State of Palestine has the status of a "Non-member Observer State" in the UN.
The UN General Assembly every year passes resolutions calling for illegal Israeli settlers and military to withdraw from Palestine (and then it gets vetoed by USA)
Over 70% of countries recognize Palestine as a state with sovereignity over Gaza and the West Bank and regularly vote for Isreaeli occupation (of the majority of the West Bank) to end.
I wish I could reshoot this since the ENTIRE THING is out of focus, but that would be cheating! Sorry
Your honesty is one of the (many) great things about you and a reason to keep coming back. It feels real to watch you, so keep doing things just like you do, even the wonky bits are cute (but maybe you need a new computer? 😜). And don't be so hard on yourself about the question you got wrong. You have more than 50 000 people here who adore you! 😘
@@GuinevereKnight I agree
I'd like to point out that educated does not equal smart and uneducated does not equal dumb. It seems you use these term as interchangable in the US, and you shouldn't. You can be educated and a dumbass or uneducated and smart.
Just wanted to say that!
It's a misconception that Americans are stupid. You're, mostly, uneducated when it comes to the world outside the US.
I really have to disagree on the whole competition. Education and being smart are not the same. Intelligence is based on IQ (locical, emotional, etc.) Education is based on curriculum and access to such. So, a smart person can be uneducated and vice versa. To conclude, Americans are not dumber, the mayority is just less educated and that's also based on common knowledge, not specific knowledge (German here btw)
Well, if the video was done in 2023, the guy who answered india at the first question would have been right ^^.
Yeah just googled it and India's population is apparently growing as I'm typing and you're reading this. (Look up India's population -live). While I read the statistics, India's population grew by about 10 people, if not more.
I love your channel. You are so in the videos and so vulnerable. That makes the videos really fun to watch.
Unlike his twin brother, who calls himself 'just an average American' and doesn't engage with his viewers at all - so doesn't notice when they point out he's making the same mistakes over and over again. Does 'the average American' always assume they know it all and not listen?
Hi, you are a great person, you are interested in the world, you speak your mind and your reactions are great, you are not stupid as you say in some videos, you are just not informed how it works elsewhere, that's everyone if they don't look in detail how it works somewhere else . Thanks for every video and greetings from the Czech Republic 😉
Your schools are to blame for this, because they teach about nothing but the USA, marginally world history, fat and the teachers themselves don't know much, I found this out when a friend told me how stupid and uninformed the teachers themselves are, they assert that they are right, while not even they have no idea what is happening across the ocean. I don't speak English well, so I hope you understand what I meant, it's not the people's fault, it's the schools' fault.
Black Plague? it was The Black Death (A Bubonic Plague) so as far as i'm concerned they got those wrong.
Who is fighting over the gaza strip really does depend how far back you go, at one point it was the Allies fighting the Central powers over it (mainly the UK vs the Ottoman empire), which lead to the formation of British Mandatory Palestine to begin with. British Mandatory Palestine began in 1920. I suppose the video could make the argument that at that time it was merely wrapped up in a different conflict and was not its own beast, but the question as-is has A LOT of could-be-valid answers.
Geography and history are the American Achilles heel.
And math.
Americans and English grammar aren't doing too well either.
Civics? Fuggetaboutit!
I hope they are a lot better in other fields.
@@Alltagundso - They're not.
@@lynneanderson4255 😢😢 Seriously, what is going on in this country?
@Alltagundso - It's a very old, long, and ugly story.
One of the (many) incisive things MLK said about the U.S. that is so true was (paraphrasing)
"the downfall of the U.S. will be its racism, militarism, and greed."
That's clearer now than it's almost ever been.
emu , Australia of course . Have you heard about Emu War??? fantastic story
I've heard and it's insane
Yes, i have.. And Emu´s won this war 🤣
The one representing the UK should have been on the American team! lol
Why?
@@Thurgosh_OG Because he was getting basic things wrong.
@@anglosaxon5874Not to be dodgy or anything but he may have not gone through the UK system
After all, they voted for Brexit.
@@Er_Guille Yes and so proud I did!
A state is a country. You American you! :)
Don't feel too bad about this WW2 thing. On my opinion you are cleverer than most of the americans 🙈 and much more interested in the world and different views! That's what makes you unique for american reviewers! I really like it. 👍
And honestly it’s not a simple yes or no answer either. Like the ussr was on germanys side in the beginning
@@lulaa123 actually that one question was particularly easy to answer cause it was about the US and the USSR. And they both fought on the side that wasn't the Nazis. If you overthink it, it becomes difficult, cause you start splitting hairs and then yes becomes maybe, but also no, and it's confusing and it sucks.
I will shocked you more, U.S. even provided to the USSR Lend-Lease, forming a Grand Alliance alongside with UK. 😊
When it comes to geography and cultures, our education system has gone downhill too. When I was a kid in primary school, I loved projects revolving around other countries. I vividly remember the images and "feelings" of countries such as Indonesia and Japan, the projects we made. We also learned about our own country, but nowadays it's all they teach. It's like shutting the ears, eyes and minds to the beauty of other countries and cultures. It's as if other countries don't exist. In this respect, I understand Ryan's remarks concerning the US in this regard. We have gone down that path too!!! And it's a horrible feeling when you've experienced both kinds of education systems and it's hard to explain to those who've only experienced one or the other, but the myopic experience of just concentrating on one's own culture and country is horrible in comparison.
Everything has it's own purpose. If you knew more , you could become rebels and an inconvenience to your own country. That' s why they keep you in the dark and repeat you are the greatest in every aspect and the rest of the world are just modern collonies.
Where did you receive this information? Undercover yank found
They all got it wrong. The official name is Brexshit.
Losers say this ;)
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Yooo haha
Actually, Russia was an ally of Germany at the start of WW2, until Germany decided to invade Russia. Russia then joined the allies in the second half of the war.
One of the best abilities I think a person can have, is to learn … it’s ok to not know the answer , it’s ok to get it wrong … it’s how we learn and grow 🌻
Apart from the fact these questions are asked about culture and therefore it is not a test of intelligence, at most of memory, I can say with certainty that the Italian didn't get a single one wrong because the Italian school system is better than the US one, believe it or not.
I'm disappointed in the UK guy getting the USSR/USA WWII allies question wrong, when it's still taught in Schools today.
You prove the tag line, all by yourself
Well that’s more than a little unwarranted.
I remember that an American girl thought that Italy was on the equator 😭 now I don't pretend that you know the exact position of where Italy is but at least know that Europe is not at the equator.
The most shocking part of the video for me was them knowing that Brazil's language is Portuguese kkkkk As a Brazilian, how many Americans have tried to start a conversation with me in Spanish when they found out I was Brazilian....
India has only been considered the most populous country in the world since the end of April 2023. According to an estimate by the United Nations, India's population would then have reached 1,425,775,850 people. India only comes in 7th place among the largest countries in the world in terms of area.
Well while India's population is growing ATM China's is actually falling. So yes I would expect India to have surpassed China, though I'm not sure that's a "good" fact. I believe that China is currently supposed to be around 1.3B, but don't quote me on that.
Funny that you give the population to 0.0000001% precision, given the fact that at least the last digit (and probably the one but last too) will have changed between the time you looked up the number and the time you typed it. Not to speak of the different numbers depending on the source; at the moment I write this MedIndia says 1.421 billion.
(Indian population grows by around 1 per 3 seconds.)
@@stevenvanhulle7242
When I decided to comment on this video saying that China is no longer the most populous country in the world, it was because I had read that India has now replaced China. This is a trend also knowing that the number of children is on the downward trend and that one logically assumes that this counts as a reduction in the overall population.
It doesn't prove who is smarter when half the game is decided by who gets to the buzzer first. Also allowing someone to answer after their opponent got it wrong means the second person knows what the first one said is wrong. They might have BOTH thought the Atlantic Ocean is bigger. Not a test that really proves anything.
When i was an exchange student, i was in our Yr 10, (sophomore) and went to the Senior year in Phoenix Arizona and Ridgecrest. even though 2 year higher than my level in Australia, it was the same stuff we were taught in our yr 7 and 8. (lower than the USA freshman year)
Brexit is an official term.
Theresa May, defined the meaning of Brexit when she was Prime Minister.
She said: " Brexit means Brexit." and that explains and defines what Brexit is. It is Brexit.
And she was the PM at the time, so it is official. 😀
Betteridge's Law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
How does this guy know that? 😂👍
The UK government created the term Brexit as an attempt to split support and create multiple definitions to dilute the vote (hard and soft Brexit were created too). It didn't work but the term stuck...
Seems the minute something exists in the UK, it must have a nickname - perhaps an offshoot of rhyming slang, or perhaps earlier origins (my Scottish granny spoke of the coal Johnny and the apple Johnny.) Where else would one find Cruella, 30p Lee, Boaty McBoatface, etc?
@@danmayberry1185 No it was simply a political ploy they came up with in an attempt to split the support to leave the EU. They repeatedly tried to create different groups and offer variations on leaving trying to undermine the referendum result. It was all political in nature delaying for years our exit from the EU, and even now they're still try to split the supporters of leaving, and get us back in again.
Also by giving it a name they distanced it from the original vote of "leave the EU". They started redefinition what BREXIT was and constantly tried to spin the entire thing into various options that didn't actually leave.
Looking at it now, I'd have to say they succeeded 200% on the multiple definitions part, but I'm not sure about the rest.
'Antarctic Ocean' isn't so dumb; the Southern Ocean is pretty huge
@@danmayberry1185 Just cross La Manche (yep) and you’ll see that your neighbours do exactly the same ;) (even though we prefer weird acronyms)
State and country is the same thing basically everywhere outside the US. In Europe presidents are called "head of state".
It's funny to watch because most of your first thoughts are right, then you start asking yourself too many questions. You're the most cultured american I've watched in these sorts of videos 😀
Most European speak more than 1 language and know about world politics. I for one have 5 diverente diploma and speak 5 languages. I also follow wrldtnews and try be be informed. Do this as well
But you can't type correctly if your life depended on it. . . . . got it. 😉
India is correct, the film is probably a bit older
It is now, but it wasn't when the video was recorded.
Yap, it's 6 years old.
In the beginning of WWII the Soviet Union allied with Nazi Germany and they agreed to invade Poland in 1939, after which that country was split up, the western part was occupied by the Nazis, the east by Stalin. When Hitler declared war on the Soviet Union in 1941, Stalin became an ally of the USA and the other allied forces. The enemy of your enemy is your friend, right. Until the war was won...
Mr. Wuzer, have you ever heard of the Yalta conference in February 1945 to settle the end of WW2? And who were the allies present at this conference? Weren't they M Roosevelt for the USA, M Churchill for the UK and... M Stalin for the USSR?
Depending when this video was taken … India overtook China recently being the most populous country!
Both Israel and Palestine are states as far as I can tell. On 14 May 1948, the Jewish People's Council gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum, and approved a proclamation, in which it declared "the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel."
Israel is a state, Palestine is not. The arabs did not agree to a two-state-solution while Israel did and founded its state.
The arabs instead demand all of the region of Palestine, which does include the area of Israel.
With founding a Palestinian state the arabs would have to give up to claim the territory of Israel for themself.
This is basically the cause of this conflict and why it was not solved until today.
@@ThomasVWorm Taken from the Internet: Palestine , officially the State of Palestine, is a state in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Founded on 15 November 1988 and officially governed by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), it claims the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip as its territory, all of which has been Israeli-occupied territories since the 1967 Six-Day War. I know one shouldn't believe everything on the internet but this info can be corroborated.
Thank you for not editing de Soviet allies part. Made my day.
I love the question about WWII and the Soviet Union being an ally.
It's so hard to watch these answers.
They weren't not even only an ally. I would even say the Soviets did the majority of heavy lifting against Germany. They also lost the most people by far.
Actually as a Dutch person I had the WW II question wrong because I remembered the founding date of the Sovjet union wrong (after WW I) 😅.
The Chinese currency is Renminbi yuan
Hey Ryan, a friend of mine from Carmel, Indiana, came to visit me in Lisbon. We went into a local store and a (maybe) Bengali man asked her where she's from. She said Indiana. Then he said, "India?" We laughed a lot because she's whiter than a potato!
There are a lot of white people in India too, mostly due to the British having a presence there for many years. You can't really determine someone's origin from the color of their skin...
OK, but I bet you could take one look at her and know she wasn't from India. @@jeffafa3096
Why didn't she just say America - that is her country!
Because America (North and South) are continents, not really a country, but since USA dominates everything some people just say America. Ask people from Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia. They will remind you that they are also Americans. I say "USAmericans" instead of Americans out of respect for the other American countries. When people here ask where I'm from I say Florida instead of USA or America. Many people say their city or state instead of country, maybe because the country is so big, or maybe because some parts of the USA are downright embarrassing, like Texas.@@valsyaranamual6853
The first giveaway that the video is older is long before they mention Gaza, right in the answer to the first question, because as of this year India's population has outgrown that of China.
When I was at school I hated Geography, but later in life when I started travelling I was enthused, I wanted to know everything about the countries we visited, so Geography became very relevant, languages too, and history as well. America tries to deny its history, denying slavery, denying the confederacy, etc. Americans aren’t dumb they value different things, mostly American, and don’t really have a “need” to know about other countries. The dumbest person in the world can ask questions that even the wisest people don’t know the answer to. So it not to know all of the right answers but to have the desire, and ability to ask good questions, ones that lead to a greater understanding.
Australia lost a war to the emus. Look it up. It's hilarious 😂😂😂
1:35 It's kinda weird I somewhat guessed what "405 south" means as a European just because I know the 405 is a big interstate Californian highway, but I didn't know it was the nickname of the place in the south of LA. But it's awkward to present oneself this way, it's just like if I said "I'm from the A104 east".
I live in Ireland, and I guessed it was a highway in LA just off the name. But it was a guess based on some prior knowledge of American road names. It's definitely a weird way to say where you're from. I wouldn't say I live on the N11 South.
@@ShizuruNakatsu Yup, that's American car culture for ya, as a 'murican would say.
@chucku00 I really don't like their over dependence on cars. I love walking, and I walk everywhere. I'll be 31 this year and I've never had a car, nor have I ever wanted one. Everything I could ever need, is within walking distance of my house, and I love nature and fresh air. Plus there's always buses and trains.
@@ShizuruNakatsu US car companies have pushed local and federal governments to undermine public transportation since the 1930 and even more after WWII, as a consequence it also shaped the whole US urban landscape.
This being said, as a former inhabitant of the extended suburbs of Paris I had to rely on my car for work commuting because it would have taken twice the time with the very centralized transportation system of this region (same thing with the nationwide French highway and railroad network). And now that I'm leaving in the deep Burgundy countryside I can't move the way I want to without my car. So, even in Europe, there are too many places that are still in need of efficient public transportation services.
Palestine IS a country, as part of the Ottoman Empire. They had their own currency, flag and leaders long before Israel was CREATED in 1947.
Well at least you feel ashamed when you say something kinda dumb 😂 I really enjoy your content and your authenticity, you’re doing a great job 👏🏻
Your suffering is out entertainment. lol. That conclusion was painful though. Even I as non-American felt that. Ouch.
But the one thing that I thought was weird is people didn't know that russia (before the soviet union of course), was not an ally. The axis of evel was at the beginig "Germany, Italy, Japan" and the other side was "Great Britain, France, the United States, and russia". Super over simplifying it (there are so many hours of documentaries talking about this). You let me down not knowing that hehe :)
Um... The USSR was created in 1922, the Second World War started in 1939. So sorry, but at the time of the Second World War, Russia no longer existed, it was the USSR!
You oddly place Russia, in lowercase and call it by the wrong name, as well. The Allies were Britain, France and the Soviet Union and then the USA joined much later.
You're both forgetting Australia and New Zealand!
There are no emoos in Australia either, but we do have emus.
Country and State are essentially synonymous terms because they both refer to political entities that govern themselves.
Angela Merkel was the chancellor of Germany. Now we have Olaf Scholz. A real disappointment
Elven arrogance!! The original video is 6 Years old! Who was the German Chancellor 6 years ago? I give you a tip it was a woman. You are the disapointment.
Must say, Kohl and Merkel gave Germany a higher profile, internationally. Perhaps the CDU is less nationalistic, and therefore, more engaging.
The comparison with Hilary Clinton is not good, because Merkel really was the head of the government for years.
You cannot test how dumb a person is by making them remember facts Albert Einstein was famous for not remembering fact that he could not look up
She's like the German Hillary Clinton.
This, more than any other answer, show how dumb can be an American. She describe in that way the woman who was the head of the German government for 16 years. The woman who ruled the largest European economy for 16 years, the most powerful woman in the world for 16 years.
Regarding the whole "country or state" thing, it all boils down to the definitions you choose.
In a general sense, state and country are synonyms, and yes, Palestine is one (again, in the general sense). It's when we dive deeper when we start to find problems and nuances.
We define states as political entities able to establish sovereignty (usually defined as the monopoly on the use of force) over the population of a particular territory. We define countries as sovereign (independent) states. This means normally the difference between a state and a country lies in a federal country being comprised of it's constituent federated states, but this is not at all a sentence that is true in all circumstances.
Ultimately, what defines a sovereign country is international recognition. There are between 187 and around 206 countries in the world, depending on what, you'll say? Well, depending on who you ask. Those ~20 countries are not universally recognised by the whole international community (normally considering those countries' population and territory completely or partially belonging to another recognised country, or simply "disputed"). Palestine is in this situation (along with other countries like China, Taiwan, North and South Korea, Israel, Cyprus, Armenia, Kosovo, Western Sahara and several other more or less recognised, sovereign and independent countries).
Then there is the complex matter of independence and sovereignty. There are states with a wide range of special political status (like free association, dependency, self-government, autonomy, etc), and different lists consider some of those states to be independent countries or not, depending on the amount of sovereignty the particular list considers enough to be considered an independent country (is Greenland a country? is Niue? is Aruba? are the Marshall Islands? is Gibraltar? etc).
Finally, and regarding the official name of Palestine, most countries use in their official names words defining the form of the state, with names like "Kingdom" or "Republic", while others choose "Union" or "Commonwealth", signaling other characteristics of the country's definition. Some countries simply define themselves as "State of", in a pretty "aseptic" way, but this is more often related to a situation of transitoriety (where the final form of the State hasn't been defined yet) than to a situation related to lack of diplomatic recognition.
I'd recommend taking a look at this list so you can start learning about these nuances:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states
Allies or enemies, America decides this on a day-to-day basis, as we ALL learned?! Maybe not.
I'm from a EU country and it really seems like many of the questions were made to favor our educational background, and since the point gap was so small, I think these Americans did a great job!
It's kind of the point of this kind of shows to favor better educational background. In Europe a lot of the information about the world is basic knowledge, but in USA... depends on how wealthy your parents are. In richer neighborhoods education is much higher quality and I wouldn't be surprised if kids from that background on average would be on the same level as European children or even above.
seen plenty of videos where the people being asked didn't know the most basic stuff about america, including not knowing who the president was...of their country.
it has nothing to do with educational background...who else names their national sports competition "World Championship"?
@@psycho_chicken_9589 Well, they do allow 4 Canadian teams to take part in recent years. But they should have changed the name of the competition, way back when the 'World News' newspaper of New York, stopped funding the event.
Don't beat yourself on making such a massive blunder, to be fair I almost got one wrong as well!!!! (It's a JOKE!! When you make that face... It's a joke)...
You did well, and honestly, it is an easy thing to do to consider that USA and USSR were friends, (sort of anyway).. I did get the Japan currency wrong..
I love how this quiz have questions catered to Americans, oceans they lay in middle of, Gaza strip thats constantly on their media, USA Russia pact, Germany cancelor that's one of few womans they learn about... And they still fall short!
You are right about one thing, multiple countries thought over the gaza strip. HOWEVER! while Palestine is up for debate as a country or not, it was. All of israel and palestine today used to be palestine. Israel is an invading 'nation' and if you go back in time, israel did not exist, but the country of palestine did.
What did these countries think about?
There was a province and then a mandate but no state. Israel could not invade because it didn't exist at that time. There were immigrants who were (Jewish) Palestinians in the time of the British mandate. They became enough people to get their own state and whose history is from this land. Much older than any other remaining religion or folk. The Palestinians tried the same thing with Jordan but were not successful.
We in Europe have a big advantage in this type of quizzes because our dumb ones don't understand English. So it's easy for us to hide them out from the rest of the world.
And that includes here in the UK. I'm not sure what they speak in and around Londonstan but there's not much of the English language left in it these days.
In primary school, we had Social Studies which taught is about history of civilisations and we would do projects about other countries, plus everyone had an atlas. Do USA schools not have this subject?
A lot of people seem to confuse knowledge with intelligence, those two concepts do not always go hand in hand. Yours truly is a fine example, I know all capitals in Europe and speak 6 languages, besides that I consider myself cultured in both history and general social behavior, none of that makes me intelligent, just a decent conversation partner. Plenty like me who believe they are intelligent, far from it, intelligence is the ability to understand beyond the scope of normal people, envision and create, something I lack.
Americans are not dumbs, just the US education system does not gives
much attention in History, Geography and study of other Cultures as they should.
And the worst is they are not gives answers to kids why the general knowledge is
so much important and needed in their life, so they can search than knowledge elsewhere.
You are right Ryan! ⭐ Palestinians are not from Gaza, Gaza was created for them as a separate State! They are from Jordan! 👍
YOU added the word 'official' to the Brexit question!!!
Fun thing to do. Chat to someone online and pretend to be American. I'm British and did this with a fellow Brit. I said, "Oh, gee, you're from England? Is that in Europe?" My fellow Brit actually believed that an American could ask that question seriously. That says it all. That's how low our expectations of Americans are.
its a country not a state. been around well before israel
Depends when you start to look. Israel was there some thousand years ago. The name Palestine came in 500BC and vanished until WW1. But the state declared first was Israel (1948). Palestine following in 1988 but with no real country.
I'm not sure the buzzer is a good way to decide these questions.
You answered nearly perfectly, so don’t feel bad, just about your co-citizens.
like your content, keep it up.
Is funny how he reacts now to a video from 6 years ago and the question about the countries that fight on Gaza strip is still relevant today. And to be fair both are countries, the thing is none of them are fully recognized, some part of the world recognize Israel and some Palestine, like China and Taiwan, is Taiwan a country ? depends on who you ask
The correct answer was Egypt and Israel. The state of Palestine did not exist when Israel won Gaza strip in a war from Egypt in 1967. The State of Palestine as political entity was formed in 1988.
The Kiwis from Kiwiland [ NZ ] have a bird related to the Emu.
To be fair with you, the USSR/USA/Nazi Germany during WWII was kinda weird and I doubt it's well taught in the US :
First, Nazis and USSR make a pact of non aggression
Second, Nazis attack USSR anyways
Third, Japan attacks US : so because Japan and Germany are allied, USA are allied with USSR
Fourth : Stalingrad, and WWII is finished, now starts the Cold War, and the rush to Berlin
I'm really summarizing.
I don’t know but it seems that schools and high schools have a higher level in Europe, as per testimonies of students and teachers that have experienced both in countries like Spain, Italy, Germany, France … at least in the “hardcore” subjects but quite less in group forming activities like cooking, playing on a band and so on.
A country can also be refered to a a nation state.
There was no Israel state in palastine until the UK invented it in 1947 (give or take a couple of years).
Emu are not from NZ but we have them here, they are farmed, there are some on my street. You have them in the US too
Hello from South Africa 🇿🇦. You missed "the Boston Tea Party" at 12:36. I thought the B in Brexit confused him, but then he confused me with his "gang member" comparison 😂.
'Individually we're smart' haha 😅
It's always individual, no country is dumb per se, just depends on curiosity and need.
If we had to answer about USA and Canada etc we wouldnt do as well.
Most other countries have free education, so its NOT necessarily the person.
they should have had to write their awnsers down instead. now it was just about who pressed the button fastest and a lot of questions were a yes or no awnser and if the first ansered wrong the other just had to guess the other option
@Ryan Wuzer Actually India surpassed China in terms of population this year (of course marginally, but technically it is higher)
16:29 That makes total sense, WAW ! 🙃
Proud that the italian guy answer all the questions right 😂
A state is the legal term for a country my friend. (Dont confuse it with your modern version of "states" as in parts of your nation.)
In political and international law terms, a "state" refers to a political entity that possesses sovereignty over a geographical area. A state has an organized government, a permanent population, a defined territory, and the capacity to enter into relations with other states. The concept of a state is often used synonymously with "nation" or "country" when it refers to independent political entities.
The key characteristics of a state are:
Sovereignty: The state has supreme authority within its territory and is not subject to external control.
Government: There is an organized political structure that governs the state, making and enforcing laws, and managing public affairs.
Territory: The state has a clearly defined geographical area over which it exercises control.
Permanent Population: The state is inhabited by people who are under its rule.
Recognition: The state is acknowledged by other states in the international community, although this is not a mandatory criterion for statehood.
In some contexts, "state" can also refer to a subdivision within a larger nation-state, such as the states in the United States, which are individual political entities within the federal system of the United States.
People from Frankfurt am Main saying Frankfurt is the smartest country
And for some of the non Americans they were doing the quiz in a second language, don't forget.