The British education system stopped teaching proper British history back in the 90s. The lefty teachers were "appalled" by how we had modernized the world and we were evil etc etc. On the flip side,when I joined a company in New Hampshire the guy hiring me said I had raised the IQ of the company@
When I lived in the States, I was on the Reservation one time talking to some local guys. After a while, one of them asked me where I was from. When I replied England, he said “oh, so where did you learn your English, it’s pretty good!”
When I worked over in the States (military) I asked my students to go through a hand drawn map I made of the USA. I started to fill it in from west to east and struggled after half way. After all I’m British. My American students then said I knew more states than Americans after high school. I see it hasn’t improved.
Im sorry to say but its so true this video is so.true from all the americans i have met on my holidays abroad there was a few who were not as bad. You know a lot more than the ones isolated back in the states you are learning every day 😁 same as me by traveling around and taking in knowledge as we go helps.
Having English as a third language and not living in US, I still knew all the answers. But stay positive, those people are able to wote who rules the country. What could possible go wrong.😱
Does voting really makes a difference in a dictocracy like the US ? I don't think so Tim. Since you don't vote for the people who really have the power, and they always stay the same.
@@beldin2987 I was just watching a video from a lady who looked back all the US presidents lineage and all are linked to King John of England... I don't know how true the data is... but she made a very strong argument. We don't "vote".. the candidates are chosen by the bloodline.
@@ArminGrewe Just did a mock... got one question wrong. As long as you paid attention at school you should get 80-100% (If you are in a region that actually teaches the national curriculum and not some school in a devolved region that chose to ignore the curriculum taught the last 50 years). To be honest, i thought it would be a lot harder. "Who lead the Anglo-Saxons to victory against the Vikings?" "Was it... A) Robert The Bruce"... Much Epic lulz.
I'm Israeli and I knew most of the answers, I assume there were many Americans who also knew them, but obviously in videos like this they only show the ones who got it wrong, so it doesn't really say much about the average American, it only says a lot about the people we saw in the video...however from personal experience I do agree that the average American knows less about what's going on outside of their country than someone who lives outside of the US, a lot of Americans really live in a bubble.
There's another guy who does this kind of thing too, A . . . Loveliveserve - As well as his just wandering around outside ones, - (Malls, Fairgrounds, etc) - he even goes around a few Uni campuses (Harvard, etc) - and also gets some quite strange answers - or non-answers to a lot of his easy questions also . . . have a look and a laugh with us at some of them - we may even get some of your happy giggle snorts escaping, or just a few surprised shocked facepalms from you, too?
There's a saying that I really like, similar to 'If you're wanting to find something, and go looking for it, You'll find it.' There are Americans that don't know anything. There are also Americans that do.
I agree with you ,but to be honest most Americans don't know anything. You know why ?because they think they are better than anyone else outside the USA.
These kinds of videos don't surprise me, as I've seen a bunch like them before. In one of these videos, the question about who fought in the US civil war came up, and a young lady answered the Nazis vs the Germans. Another young lady, upon being questioned when the US was founded, answered 1994. The interviewer played along and facetiously asked how she knew, and she answered that she was "kinda smart".
wowzers, im british and i knew every question.....its saddening how many modern americans have no clue about their own country, i knew the answers to every single question
I'm not surprised! I'm English & played Trivial Pursuit with American friends in Arizona & one of the questions was "how many states border Mexico?" They said THREE & were amazed when I named FOUR!! They actually live in one of those four states too!! 🙈🇬🇧🙈
yep, one can easily do in all countries (and in less developed countries around the world even more) do such videos. stupid are in reality people who are not aware about that.
Oh God, I had to pause this because I had to look at your reaction, Amanda. 😂 I almost thought you were going to say, "All hold hands and contact the living" at one point...
I don't think the "how many in a dozen" question is limited to the U.S. A few years ago, in the supermarket, I was wanting to buy some stamps. Went to the checkout at the customer service desk and asked for half a dozen 1st class stamps. This triggered a vacant look from the young lady, so I asked again. The response this time was "how many is half a dozen?". Facepalm. All the facepalms.
Well it is especially embarrassing in the US where the dozen still is used in daily life. In most countries the dozen is something from the far past like the so called baker dozen which was 13 in order to avoid the harsh penalties in medieval times.
I had exactly the same thing in a McDonalds recently. I asked for half a dozen sachets of sugar. The response from the young woman who was serving me? "How many is that? Five?" 🤣
Youngsters of today didn't grow up in the 60s. They probably struggle to know how many lbs in a stone, or oz in a lb, or pints in a gallon, fl oz in a pint, or yds in a chain or in a furlong. And why the hell should they? A dozen is another obsolete quantity.
I watched an old clip of the Newlywed Game and a husband and wife team thought there were four years to a decade. They came to this answer independently and scored points simply because the answers were in agreement.
The question on American Independence was actually quite hard. The expected answer was probably 1776, but the Treaty of Paris was drafted in 1782, signed in 1783 and effective 1784. I don't think many Belgians could date the Treaty of London (1839) which established Belgian independence.
What bothered me is they are so young, school wasn't that long ago. They appear to be learning by rote . ( learning to pass s test ) then the information is forgotten.
Don't worry Amanda, it's not just America. If you asked similar questions in London about British history I have no doubt you would get a similar response. There are just too many people who spend their lives posting pictures of what they ate for breakfast or some such nonsense. I am sure if you asked these same people about the history of the Kardashians they could go into untold detail, all of which would be factually correct.
On one of the videos he did. The “interviewee” reeled off every one of them. Edit: I would say to the point that British people wouldn’t be able to answer similar questions about the UK, all the questions he was asking them, the information is widely spread through mass media. I wouldn’t be able to tell you when the British revolution was, or how many counties there are in the UK, but the number of states, date of the revolution/civil war, capital city, even a lot of state capitals, keep coming up in the Simpsons, Friends, The Big Bang Theory, etc.
I suspect these videos are a bit selective in that they don't show people who do know the answers. There is a video where people of mixed ages are asked what they knew about Wales, and they had a fair idea of the country, considering they were in the US.
then I BEG you interview me, as i possibly know more about history than you do, I am also an acknowledged expert in ancient SUMERIANN history, culture and Cuneiform and speak 3 other languages other than my own. So i Exemplify a TRUE Brit. But then again. I am Generation X
These kinds of videos are made to get a reaction and feed the belief held by many non-Americans that a lot of you guys are basically ignorant and don't care about that. I have to tell you that we have our share of ignoramuses as well and we have to take these videos a with a pinch of salt. However, i must say that I have a friend who lives in Tennessee who sent his 3 children to private schools because he felt the public ones just weren't up to scratch. All 3 went to university . Now i don't know if that is indicative of anything and have no way of knowing, but every American I have met was not in the slightest bit uneducated except maybe this guy I met in Amsterdam who came from Minnesota . I got chatting to him and asked him if he knew of a local restaurant he could recommend. He mentioned Susie's Café being just round the corner . Anyway, I wandered around the corner but could not find any such café, and it took me awhile before I realised he meant Suisse Cafe. Understandable mistake I guess if you don't know any French, but then he was a locksmith from Minnesota. The recommendation was good, by the way
Working in the hotel industry in Greece American lady was suprised we didnt wear togas and travel on donkeys! Also asked if she could drive to Egypt! This was a 5* hotel.
Don't get uptight Amanda - we have some (lots!) of people here in the UK who would make those Americans on the video look positively erudite! And the most amazing thing of all is that they don't know what they don't know! And live their lives quite happily!
Somewhat unfair asking Americans about America ! I've met many Americans around the world on my travels and some can almost speak English ! I did ask an American what was thanksgiving after she wished me happy thanksgiving and she said it's when the family have turkey ! I left at that point before I laughed uncontrollably
You're probably right that thousands were interviewed to find someone who couldn't answer simple questions but the range of knowledge that these people lacked is still amazing
Im a 50+ brit and the only one i didnt know for sure was when US was formed. I know the pilgrim fathers went from uk in 17th century and i think US was founded sometime in 1800s but thats as close as i can get because we dont get taught it but i still like to learn aout other places even now
Hi Amanda, I am English & it's clear you had a better education than most US citizens because your English diction is clearer than most including my US friends. Top marks. P.S. I love your tats. 😉
You can find stupid anywhere. The more interesting question would be how many people he had to ask those question to get those dumb answers. I'm quite confident that even in the US (which is not the greatest country on earth when it comes to education - and anything else, really, tbh) those weren't the only ones he had to ask.
I would describe myself as a deeply spiritual person, so I'm not really into knowledge. By "deeply spiritual" I mean "colossally fkn stupid". But that's absolutely fine, because I'm so deeply spiritual.
I think a lot of those things are learned along the way of growing up, like osmosis. General knowledge. And with the newer generations spending more time playing video games snd watching tik-tok instead of interacting with other people - family, friends etc. they dont get the chance to learn stuff.
Good points. If one thinks about it: How do we get to know things? It's not because we're just born special. All the things we know are due to a combination of personal experience and interaction with other people (via books, lessons & conversations). Limit any one of those elements and general knowledge WILL decrease, doesn't matter who you are.
The most enjoyable part of this video by far was your reaction to the answers Amanda. It seemed a mixture of annoyance, embarrassment and shock. I wouldn’t be too downhearted though, I’m sure some young Brits would struggle as well. I do agree, that these were probably the cherry picked answers from hundreds of people questioned. All for affect.
I wish that he had asked me "Who fought in the Civil War?" My responses: 1. Which Civil War? There have been many. There is one going on right now in Sudan. OR 2. The Cavaliers and the Roundheads (Crown and Parliament) in the Seventeenth Century.
the continents one depends who you ask some treat north and south America at one land mass so say six and others say the same for europe and asia only counting as five
Oh wow.. I absolutely luv your reactions... On this one, you were clearly gob smacked.. your reactions to this one 😂😂 so funny. Thanks for the laughs 😊
I went to university here in AU in my early 30's, there were a lot of fresh out of high school students there, in one class the teacher asked about the wall clock for some reason, there were a few of these fresh out of high school kids who couldn't read it, I mean ok so you grew up with digital sure, but it's not some complicated device hiding the time behind an equation, but they just couldn't tell time on the wall clock, that amazed me. Another thing and this is probably common but not being able to sew, even basic sewing most of my class couldn't do, I guess this teacher asked a bunch of questions for his own amusement maybe, but I was the only one to raise my hand, a male in his 30's was the only one who could sew, I did home-ec at high school that's how I learned, I guess we were taught basic life skills back then now they more focus on other things I guess. And yes these videos pick the worst of the bunch, even so some of these questions were just basic things like the dozen one or decade, things most people should know.
I remember Jay Leno asking random Americans on the streets and they knew almost nothing. There are many videos like this and they all show the same thing. Even American youtubers are ignorant. I saw the brilliant British comedian Al Murray talking abot the Falklands war and he said that it was a war about penguins. He said that they needed penguins to make Guinness and when you cook the birds they make the foam on top of a Guinness. The two youtubers looked at each other and said: "Is that true"? But then, ignorant people are to be found everywhere.
You’re a very intelligent American, you move to Britain I could understand people, not knowing what a bakers dozen is, but I can’t understand them, not knowing what a dozen is most children should know that by the age of about 7
Amanda, I'm English 66 years old, I have travelled in America extensively. I have amazing American friends. Let me exaggerate, there are two types of Americans. There are Educated Americans, who probably have traveled the world a bit, then there is the rest of the Americans, who are OK to talk with but don't expect too much. Look, you live in the UK, Go to Glasgow on the street, but with questions referenced to Great Britain.
Amanda, I have seen a similar video made in the UK of young people being asked questions about the UK. Sorry to say many gave similar answers or did not know. Don't be too sad, my American wife was similarly embarrassed.
No country has a monopoly on people not knowing things 😉 However, if you’ve ever watched the film (very funny) 'Idiocracy' - it should serve as a warning not a template 😊
That was funny, I would like to see a British 🇬🇧 version, most of us should have a basic knowledge of our country's but sometimes people get a "Brain fart" over the simplest of questions. Great video. 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇲
Don't worry. America has Mark Twain. The wittiest, wisest bastard who ever lived. All his quotes are gold dust, and usually absolutely hilarious. He's helping to put his thumb on the scale to balance it all out.
How hard can it be - they only need to know the history of one country and learn how to count. I also worry about the dropping in standards of history and knowledge here too.
I've watched many of these & I can understand getting a few wrong because your nervous on the spot or the question is asked in a odd way. But most of these a grammar school shit
Standing looking at Niagra Falls next to a father and daughter from Chicago when the daughter asked father whether the water in the great lakes was fresh or salt. The reply came back "I don't know honey I'll have to Google it".
I love your videos, love your snigger...you definitely are British now lol, you can laugh at yourself with ease!! 😀😉 Anyway, I remember Jay Leno doing something similar on his show in the US. That part/segment on his show, where he went on to the streets and ask questions like these. Many admitted to be students, some at University and on a couple of memorable occasions...they were teachers/tutors! I remember one lady, said she was a nurse got the question, ''What is the human body's largest organ?'' wrong. Jay, like you, pointed out...anything past your borders... no interest or knowledge... but he also found that of the people he questioned, the knowledge of the geography of the USA, and the World in general was appalling. BUT let's face it the ones that got to air were 'cherry-picked'. Like you said above...it doesn't look good but there would have been some/many that got all the questions right.
In my college chemistry class in the 70s we were struggling with the concept of a "Mole," which, we were told, was a number of atoms or molecules equivalent to Avogadro's number. To make it simple for us, our teacher compared a Mole to a dozen, which can be 12 units of anything. I see that using the term "a dozen" to explain an unfamiliar concept might not work too well nowadays...
This is a reflection of the American educational system and the younger generation, I'm English and I suspect if you tried this in a large British city you could probably come up with a similar video , sad but true .
I am from Lithuania and I was bad in school but I know that US founded in 1776 and has 50 states. Washington is the capital and even the hockey team is called that. And I liked geography so I know 5 cities of Texas. Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin and El Paso, I wonder if these kids could name five from Texas.
Oh wow I know more about American history than the Americans do 🤣🤣🤣 Amanda you are British now so don’t feel too bad 😂
Haha ! phew 😂
@@LADYRAEUK Don't worry, im sure if we asked the youth of the UK some questions about their country, we would have the same result.
The British education system stopped teaching proper British history back in the 90s. The lefty teachers were "appalled" by how we had modernized the world and we were evil etc etc.
On the flip side,when I joined a company in New Hampshire the guy hiring me said I had raised the IQ of the company@
Most Americans wouldn't pass the test to become a US citizen.
I wanted to give u a hug Amanda for sitting through that. That young girl saying 10 in a dozen, you reacted like you’d been shot, I don’t blame ya!
When I lived in the States, I was on the Reservation one time talking to some local guys.
After a while, one of them asked me where I was from.
When I replied England, he said “oh, so where did you learn your English, it’s pretty good!”
When I worked over in the States (military) I asked my students to go through a hand drawn map I made of the USA. I started to fill it in from west to east and struggled after half way. After all I’m British. My American students then said I knew more states than Americans after high school. I see it hasn’t improved.
Im sorry to say but its so true this video is so.true from all the americans i have met on my holidays abroad there was a few who were not as bad. You know a lot more than the ones isolated back in the states you are learning every day 😁 same as me by traveling around and taking in knowledge as we go helps.
Having English as a third language and not living in US, I still knew all the answers.
But stay positive, those people are able to wote who rules the country. What could possible go wrong.😱
lol... not a problem. They probably don't vote in political elections. duh! I do expect they vote in American Idol type TV shows 😂
Does voting really makes a difference in a dictocracy like the US ? I don't think so Tim. Since you don't vote for the people who really have the power, and they always stay the same.
@@beldin2987 Sounds like the UK Civil Service 😉
@@beldin2987 I was just watching a video from a lady who looked back all the US presidents lineage and all are linked to King John of England... I don't know how true the data is... but she made a very strong argument. We don't "vote".. the candidates are chosen by the bloodline.
@@johnw6389 do not tell Trump he will he will try become King of America
As an English person whose been in US for 23 years it is so obviously true.
Even I (as a Brit) could answer those simple questions. 😀
I feel most people could lol
I’m german and still can easily answer these questions
Same... painful to watch lol.
To be fair, i bet there is a video exactly like this for us Brits too lol.
Have you tried the British citizenship test? Most Brits would probably fail it.....
@@ArminGrewe Just did a mock... got one question wrong.
As long as you paid attention at school you should get 80-100% (If you are in a region that actually teaches the national curriculum and not some school in a devolved region that chose to ignore the curriculum taught the last 50 years).
To be honest, i thought it would be a lot harder.
"Who lead the Anglo-Saxons to victory against the Vikings?"
"Was it... A) Robert The Bruce"... Much Epic lulz.
I'm Israeli and I knew most of the answers, I assume there were many Americans who also knew them, but obviously in videos like this they only show the ones who got it wrong, so it doesn't really say much about the average American, it only says a lot about the people we saw in the video...however from personal experience I do agree that the average American knows less about what's going on outside of their country than someone who lives outside of the US, a lot of Americans really live in a bubble.
Yes it is just cherry picking, I've heard equally dumb stuff in England.
There's another guy who does this kind of thing too, A . . . Loveliveserve - As well as his just wandering around outside ones, - (Malls, Fairgrounds, etc) - he even goes around a few Uni campuses (Harvard, etc) - and also gets some quite strange answers - or non-answers to a lot of his easy questions also . . . have a look and a laugh with us at some of them - we may even get some of your happy giggle snorts escaping, or just a few surprised shocked facepalms from you, too?
There's a saying that I really like, similar to 'If you're wanting to find something, and go looking for it, You'll find it.'
There are Americans that don't know anything.
There are also Americans that do.
I agree with you ,but to be honest most Americans don't know anything. You know why ?because they think they are better than anyone else outside the USA.
These kinds of videos don't surprise me, as I've seen a bunch like them before. In one of these videos, the question about who fought in the US civil war came up, and a young lady answered the Nazis vs the Germans. Another young lady, upon being questioned when the US was founded, answered 1994. The interviewer played along and facetiously asked how she knew, and she answered that she was "kinda smart".
Pretty certain you could make a video like that in any country. Love the channel your like a breath of fresh air in UA-cam.
As a British person living in LA for a year - I was shocked at how many times an Angeleno asked me why we are called 'Brits'!
Should have said after Britney Spears lol!
lol As a Brit up the coast in Portland, I've been asked whether we speak English!
Oh, and also I've been asked whether the Brits celebrate July 4th Independence Day.
@@renejean2523😅 , I guess we should do really
@@mrforeman7443 - Like they say, we Brits don't celebrate an Independence Day, but we have been the world's biggest provider of them.
That guy with the cap and gown had "graduated"...from High School! You don't get a cap & gown in the UK until you get at least a Degree!
my daughter graduated secondary school (high school) and yes she had a gown but not a cap she got that after graduating university
@@anonimous8743 Is that in the UK? If so, things have changed radically since I graduated.
@Steveaga yes, the uk. We're very progressive, we seem to be taking on a lot more of our American cousins way of doing things
He has a degree in total ignorance
Over here you graduate from Kindergarten 😢
wowzers, im british and i knew every question.....its saddening how many modern americans have no clue about their own country, i knew the answers to every single question
CRAZY. I learnt nothing about American history in school here in the UK and could answer them all!!!!
bless your heart that was quite simple! I think they know more about intersectionality than simple history!
Im a young irish man and i could answer all these questions about the USA, foreigners seem to know more about usa than Americans
I love that certain words and phrases you say are with a british accent.
I'm not surprised! I'm English & played Trivial Pursuit with American friends in Arizona & one of the questions was "how many states border Mexico?" They said THREE & were amazed when I named FOUR!! They actually live in one of those four states too!! 🙈🇬🇧🙈
Like brits who are unaware of The Isle of Man?
@@joeysausage3437 There are no Brits unaware of the Isle of Man
@@keithdawes2685 UA-cam is a wonderful thing. There are videos proving you wrong. In fact, some brits are ignorant of Northern Ireland. Try again.
I met a guy from London who'd never heard of Manchester.
There are people like this in every country.
yep, one can easily do in all countries (and in less developed countries around the world even more) do such videos. stupid are in reality people who are not aware about that.
Oh God, I had to pause this because I had to look at your reaction, Amanda. 😂 I almost thought you were going to say, "All hold hands and contact the living" at one point...
This is how we see all Americans, all the smart ones have moved over here :)
I don't think the "how many in a dozen" question is limited to the U.S. A few years ago, in the supermarket, I was wanting to buy some stamps. Went to the checkout at the customer service desk and asked for half a dozen 1st class stamps. This triggered a vacant look from the young lady, so I asked again. The response this time was "how many is half a dozen?". Facepalm. All the facepalms.
Try asking for a couple of stamps. I was given 3. It says a lot about her dating profile.
Just as well you did not require a score or a gross.
Well it is especially embarrassing in the US where the dozen still is used in daily life. In most countries the dozen is something from the far past like the so called baker dozen which was 13 in order to avoid the harsh penalties in medieval times.
I had exactly the same thing in a McDonalds recently. I asked for half a dozen sachets of sugar. The response from the young woman who was serving me? "How many is that? Five?" 🤣
Youngsters of today didn't grow up in the 60s. They probably struggle to know how many lbs in a stone, or oz in a lb, or pints in a gallon, fl oz in a pint, or yds in a chain or in a furlong. And why the hell should they? A dozen is another obsolete quantity.
The World asked America a question...... The silence was deafening.....!!!!
Oxymoron😁😁
I watched an old clip of the Newlywed Game and a husband and wife team thought there were four years to a decade. They came to this answer independently and scored points simply because the answers were in agreement.
Those kids should take the people who educated them to court and sue them.
The question on American Independence was actually quite hard. The expected answer was probably 1776, but the Treaty of Paris was drafted in 1782, signed in 1783 and effective 1784. I don't think many Belgians could date the Treaty of London (1839) which established Belgian independence.
What bothered me is they are so young, school wasn't that long ago. They appear to be learning by rote . ( learning to pass s test ) then the information is forgotten.
True
Horrendous , I’m a Brit and answered more of the questions correctly 🙄 I think there was only two questions answered correctly 🥴Thanks Amanda😊
Oh wow! 😖I'm a Brit and knew all the answers relating to America. The 'Graduate' in the Cap and Gown - how did he graduate!?
Did ne get his Cap & Gown from E-Bay?
I'm a Brit the girl not knowing the capital of America got me Lol
loL! I think so!
Don't worry Amanda, it's not just America. If you asked similar questions in London about British history I have no doubt you would get a similar response. There are just too many people who spend their lives posting pictures of what they ate for breakfast or some such nonsense. I am sure if you asked these same people about the history of the Kardashians they could go into untold detail, all of which would be factually correct.
On one of the videos he did. The “interviewee” reeled off every one of them.
Edit: I would say to the point that British people wouldn’t be able to answer similar questions about the UK, all the questions he was asking them, the information is widely spread through mass media. I wouldn’t be able to tell you when the British revolution was, or how many counties there are in the UK, but the number of states, date of the revolution/civil war, capital city, even a lot of state capitals, keep coming up in the Simpsons, Friends, The Big Bang Theory, etc.
I suspect these videos are a bit selective in that they don't show people who do know the answers. There is a video where people of mixed ages are asked what they knew about Wales, and they had a fair idea of the country, considering they were in the US.
then I BEG you interview me, as i possibly know more about history than you do, I am also an acknowledged expert in ancient SUMERIANN history, culture and Cuneiform and speak 3 other languages other than my own. So i Exemplify a TRUE Brit. But then again. I am Generation X
Now be fair, Amanda, they didn't have a calculator handy, to answer what's 3x3x3! Yikes! haha 🤣😅😂
These kinds of videos are made to get a reaction and feed the belief held by many non-Americans that a lot of you guys are basically ignorant and don't care about that. I have to tell you that we have our share of ignoramuses as well and we have to take these videos a with a pinch of salt. However, i must say that I have a friend who lives in Tennessee who sent his 3 children to private schools because he felt the public ones just weren't up to scratch. All 3 went to university . Now i don't know if that is indicative of anything and have no way of knowing, but every American I have met was not in the slightest bit uneducated except maybe this guy I met in Amsterdam who came from Minnesota . I got chatting to him and asked him if he knew of a local restaurant he could recommend. He mentioned Susie's Café being just round the corner . Anyway, I wandered around the corner but could not find any such café, and it took me awhile before I realised he meant Suisse Cafe. Understandable mistake I guess if you don't know any French, but then he was a locksmith from Minnesota. The recommendation was good, by the way
Working in the hotel industry in Greece American lady was suprised we didnt wear togas and travel on donkeys! Also asked if she could drive to Egypt!
This was a 5* hotel.
Your reactions creased me, Lady 😂🙏
They do a similar quiz in the UK and it’s just toe curling!
Don't get uptight Amanda - we have some (lots!) of people here in the UK who would make those Americans on the video look positively erudite! And the most amazing thing of all is that they don't know what they don't know! And live their lives quite happily!
Many young Brits are completely ignorant too.
It’s an age thing, mostly.
Somewhat unfair asking Americans about America !
I've met many Americans around the world on my travels and some can almost speak English !
I did ask an American what was thanksgiving after she wished me happy thanksgiving and she said it's when the family have turkey !
I left at that point before I laughed uncontrollably
Please explain Thanksgiving. I know you will get it wrong even after looking it up. I need a good laugh.
good one
The American bubble 🤣🤣 lol
The big question is how many people did he have to question to find so many idiots?
You're probably right that thousands were interviewed to find someone who couldn't answer simple questions but the range of knowledge that these people lacked is still amazing
Im a 50+ brit and the only one i didnt know for sure was when US was formed. I know the pilgrim fathers went from uk in 17th century and i think US was founded sometime in 1800s but thats as close as i can get because we dont get taught it but i still like to learn aout other places even now
July 4 1776, I believe. (I'm not American.)
you start to wonder what the hell they do in school...jeez....i bet they know all the middle names of all the Kardashians
It is very scary. That the people asked a small group of people but the the fact is, Crazy that those people graduated even grammar school.
Amanda, Amanda, Amanda. I couldn't believe it. I knew more than them 😮
I'm Canadian and got all of them, grade school stuff.
OMG... I am feeling your pain, Amanda! But I think you're right about how it was edited.
🙌🙌
"Who fought in The Civil War?". " I don't bloody know! There must have been at least hundreds of thousands of them".
I like the way the guy says they got the answer right, when it's clearly wrong. 😂
Hi Amanda, I am English & it's clear you had a better education than most US citizens because your English diction is clearer than most including my US friends. Top marks. P.S. I love your tats. 😉
You can find stupid anywhere. The more interesting question would be how many people he had to ask those question to get those dumb answers. I'm quite confident that even in the US (which is not the greatest country on earth when it comes to education - and anything else, really, tbh) those weren't the only ones he had to ask.
look i am British and proud to be the Americans with faults have come up with brain blowing inventions that have changed the world
I have watched a few .i always thought it was a wind uo ...good vid again ❤❤
:))
I would describe myself as a deeply spiritual person, so I'm not really into knowledge. By "deeply spiritual" I mean "colossally fkn stupid".
But that's absolutely fine, because I'm so deeply spiritual.
What a load of pretentious twaddle he spouted.
I think a lot of those things are learned along the way of growing up, like osmosis. General knowledge. And with the newer generations spending more time playing video games snd watching tik-tok instead of interacting with other people - family, friends etc. they dont get the chance to learn stuff.
Good points. If one thinks about it: How do we get to know things? It's not because we're just born special. All the things we know are due to a combination of personal experience and interaction with other people (via books, lessons & conversations). Limit any one of those elements and general knowledge WILL decrease, doesn't matter who you are.
The most enjoyable part of this video by far was your reaction to the answers Amanda. It seemed a mixture of annoyance, embarrassment and shock. I wouldn’t be too downhearted though, I’m sure some young Brits would struggle as well. I do agree, that these were probably the cherry picked answers from hundreds of people questioned. All for affect.
I wish that he had asked me "Who fought in the Civil War?"
My responses:
1. Which Civil War? There have been many. There is one going on right now in Sudan. OR
2. The Cavaliers and the Roundheads (Crown and Parliament) in the Seventeenth Century.
the continents one depends who you ask some treat north and south America at one land mass so say six and others say the same for europe and asia only counting as five
Oh wow.. I absolutely luv your reactions... On this one, you were clearly gob smacked.. your reactions to this one 😂😂 so funny. Thanks for the laughs 😊
I’m English & I live in Australia & I can answer all these questions.
Amanda, don’t fret love you are by far a world of smartness away from those individuals. And lucky for you you’ve been saved here in Gods own country…
its all about cancel culture especially history its all about how they are being taught in schools.
I went to university here in AU in my early 30's, there were a lot of fresh out of high school students there, in one class the teacher asked about the wall clock for some reason, there were a few of these fresh out of high school kids who couldn't read it, I mean ok so you grew up with digital sure, but it's not some complicated device hiding the time behind an equation, but they just couldn't tell time on the wall clock, that amazed me. Another thing and this is probably common but not being able to sew, even basic sewing most of my class couldn't do, I guess this teacher asked a bunch of questions for his own amusement maybe, but I was the only one to raise my hand, a male in his 30's was the only one who could sew, I did home-ec at high school that's how I learned, I guess we were taught basic life skills back then now they more focus on other things I guess.
And yes these videos pick the worst of the bunch, even so some of these questions were just basic things like the dozen one or decade, things most people should know.
I remember Jay Leno asking random Americans on the streets and they knew almost nothing. There are many videos like this and they all show the same thing. Even American youtubers are ignorant. I saw the brilliant British comedian Al Murray talking abot the Falklands war and he said that it was a war about penguins. He said that they needed penguins to make Guinness and when you cook the birds they make the foam on top of a Guinness. The two youtubers looked at each other and said: "Is that true"? But then, ignorant people are to be found everywhere.
Yeah... Nowadays school's main job is not to make you feel bad about yourself and not to help you achieve a standard set of knowledge and skills.
You’re a very intelligent American, you move to Britain
I could understand people, not knowing what a bakers dozen is, but I can’t understand them, not knowing what a dozen is most children should know that by the age of about 7
I agree lol
Amanda, I'm English 66 years old, I have travelled in America extensively. I have amazing American friends. Let me exaggerate, there are two types of Americans. There are Educated Americans, who probably have traveled the world a bit, then there is the rest of the Americans, who are OK to talk with but don't expect too much. Look, you live in the UK, Go to Glasgow on the street, but with questions referenced to Great Britain.
I am no american but those questions about U S history was so easy
Hi Amanda, I'd like to visit the US states one day - the whole dozen of them !
Ha ha , I would also like to visit Mount Rushmore but don’t feel like going to Japan 🇯🇵
@@kimarnill7648 isnt rushmore on the border between america and canada, with the presidents heads facing towards the usa
@@anonimous8743 You know more than me , I have no idea 🤷🏼♀️😁
Amanda, I have seen a similar video made in the UK of young people being asked questions about the UK. Sorry to say many gave similar answers or did not know. Don't be too sad, my American wife was similarly embarrassed.
I am shocked, as a Brit, I knew all the answers to the first few questions! Did these kids actually attend school? Maybe this was just for the camera?
1:48 "That guy acually had a cap and gown on"... no.. he didn't... he was just going to a costume party.... 🤣🤣
Don't be embarrassed, we don't blame you Amanda. It is painful though
No country has a monopoly on people not knowing things 😉 However, if you’ve ever watched the film (very funny) 'Idiocracy' - it should serve as a warning not a template 😊
Was that not Donald Trump's Alma mater😂🤣😂
Oh my god, how do they not know these things😅
Still so funny no matter how it's edited.
That was funny, I would like to see a British 🇬🇧 version, most of us should have a basic knowledge of our country's but sometimes people get a "Brain fart" over the simplest of questions. Great video. 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇲
Don't worry. America has Mark Twain.
The wittiest, wisest bastard who ever lived. All his quotes are gold dust, and usually absolutely hilarious.
He's helping to put his thumb on the scale to balance it all out.
I know we have our fair share of numpties here in Britain too, but that was shocking!
Off the cuff, I couldn't tell you how many counties we have in England, but l do know a dozen is 14.!
How hard can it be - they only need to know the history of one country and learn how to count. I also worry about the dropping in standards of history and knowledge here too.
They can vote !
They walk amongst us in all countries.
And these kids are going to run the country one day lol. I saw something similar a couple of weeks ago and they was harder questions and they did well
I'm not even American, but I got every one of these.
he got a Doctorate of stupidity, he managed not to flunk it too :) :)
I've watched many of these & I can understand getting a few wrong because your nervous on the spot or the question is asked in a odd way. But most of these a grammar school shit
"How many countries are there in South Africa". The answers are very interesting.
Standing looking at Niagra Falls next to a father and daughter from Chicago when the daughter asked father whether the water in the great lakes was fresh or salt.
The reply came back "I don't know honey I'll have to Google it".
The Civil war was fought between the roundheads and the cavaliers.
What do they teach in schools today America and Britain
I love your videos, love your snigger...you definitely are British now lol, you can laugh at yourself with ease!! 😀😉
Anyway, I remember Jay Leno doing something similar on his show in the US. That part/segment on his show, where he went on to the streets and ask questions like these.
Many admitted to be students, some at University and on a couple of memorable occasions...they were teachers/tutors!
I remember one lady, said she was a nurse got the question, ''What is the human body's largest organ?'' wrong.
Jay, like you, pointed out...anything past your borders... no interest or knowledge... but he also found that of the people he questioned, the knowledge of the geography of the USA, and the World in general was appalling.
BUT let's face it the ones that got to air were 'cherry-picked'. Like you said above...it doesn't look good but there would have been some/many that got all the questions right.
In my college chemistry class in the 70s we were struggling with the concept of a "Mole," which, we were told, was a number of atoms or molecules equivalent to Avogadro's number. To make it simple for us, our teacher compared a Mole to a dozen, which can be 12 units of anything. I see that using the term "a dozen" to explain an unfamiliar concept might not work too well nowadays...
I was laughing so hard at seeing Amanda just gape in shock at the responses. Pretty sure I saw the exact moment she gave up on humanity. :P
Good job they didn't ask how many are in a bakers dozen. Where 12 is a standard dozen but a bakers dozen is 13.
Too right it’s worrying, these are potential parents - what chance do their children have? THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
This is a reflection of the American educational system and the younger generation, I'm English and I suspect if you tried this in a large British city you could probably come up with a similar video , sad but true .
You need to see the Jay Leno version of this.
i can see you're shocked, and i feel your pain.
You can't even call them colleges anymore. They're not just diploma factories now.
I am from Lithuania and I was bad in school but I know that US founded in 1776 and has 50 states. Washington is the capital and even the hockey team is called that. And I liked geography so I know 5 cities of Texas. Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin and El Paso, I wonder if these kids could name five from Texas.
Don't be ridiculous.