Can American University students name a single country? (American reaction)
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Being uneducated and ignorant seems to be celebrated in the US and not shamed anymore
I expect nothing less from a place where most adults believe a magic sky man made the universe 6000 years ago.
@@rogerszmodis Um, that's not the reason for the ignorance it's the education system and thinking that it's
the best place in the world to be in , living in a bubble .
Believing in God has nothing to do with it .
@@gregorygant4242 Belief in God shows indoctrination and a lack of critical thought.
@@gregorygant4242 education and religion together doesnt work....but well youre welcome to try. but ofc if the majority of adult americans thinks angels are real then whatcha gonna expect....having believes is one thing. telling a random opinion poll youre believing in angels as an adult it like saying you believe in santa......
@@gregorygant4242 The education system is definitely largely at fault I agree, but growing up religious absolutely dulls your critical thinking by design.
“You don’t even know that Spain is in Europe?”
Ryan, I don’t think she even knows where Europe is…
She probably doesn't even know what Europe is...
They all think Spanish is a language that is native to south America, they think all the Spanish colonisers just up and left one day, they also think "Latin" is native to south America and not the language of Rome, they celebrate the day a Latin man sailed over there for Spain while at the same time building a giant wall to stop Spanish speakers from getting in their border, the most ignorant and racist people on the planet, they have generalised 8 billion people into four or five groups based on appearance and then they want diversity.
That's a country right? /S
@@YT-AleX-1337 I came here to say that lol
I'm Spanish and unfortunately I'm used to this. I've seen a lot of muricans that think Spain is a region of Mexico LMAO
Ok. Geography isn’t my top subject but WHAT THE HELL?! These are university kids? How did they get in?
Wow.
How can they don't know where are their neighbours, Canada and Mexico? Or even their own country?
There are 1000s of colleges in the US. Their first two years equate to less academic rigour than we do at 16 to 18 in high school elsewhere the world. Bear in mind that ' jocks' can get a full football scholarship at many without being able to construct a readable sentence.
They just care about getting your $$$
What always seems so weird to me is that there seems to be a lot of people in the US considering actually knowing something "nerdy" or "mainstream" or whatever....in most parts of the world knowledge is considered a good thing, even attractive.
They shame people for knowing stuff there....
So true
It's been a thing for years, they actually disdain intellectualism.
Let George explain it to you :
George Carlin - Education
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It's amusing that so many americans perceive language learning and an understanding of geography as overly intellectual or "nerdy.
I could name all 50 states and their Capital Cities in America by the age of 11, and I’m a Brit. US education is abysmal.
@@marylynne9104 50 is stretch for me, I’m old and we we weren’t really taught about US but I still know a lot of them. How could anyone not pick it up.
I think you are the minority in the uk, I don’t think anyone I know could name all the US states let alone all the capital cities aswell
I'm Canadian and we also learned the states and capitals in school. Also the countries of the world and their capitals.
@@Bill-2203 Hi Is not minority. Im from the Czech Republic and can do same!! Everybody knows, that Americann education system is most horrible in the world!!!
i can do that, too. But it's not only the educational system, there's a big part of ignorance, too. Otherwise, more ppl would educate themselves by just googling or doing quizes, like I do.
Where I come from even preschool kids know more than these youngsters.
Not just youngsters. University students.... top 25 smartest percent or something of the youngsters..
@@rogerk6180 Thats scary. Soon some of them will be politicians.
@@rogerk6180 if this is the top 25% then i don't want to know the other 75%. this is basic knowledge not advanced physics lmao
Living in Europe you have so many neighbours that you automatically know at least 10 countries without actually studying.
Yes, it's tragic and depressing that American students can't identify even one country, but as a European, you'd have to spend your life in a coffin or with a dark bag over your head to know nothing about geography because our neighbours are right there alongside us and they're central to our history and to our news stories.
i mean... there is a surprising amount of americans that can't point to canada and mexico on a map XD.
That’s an excuse. Just an excuse. I’m 70 and wasn’t even aware of Europe being a neighbour at 7 yrs old but I knew so many countries around the world and we learned capital cities too.
lol I know more than European neighbours. I mean they can’t even name Canada or Mexico which is next to them. I mean Australia is a pretty dam obvious 1. What on earth seriously USA look outside your country there is a world out there
man hätte die studenten fragen sollen ob sie wissen welcher us bundestaat wo ist....
American parents pay 50 000 or 10 0000 a year for that ? French colleges or universities (mostly free) students know much more than that from far ! And our education system is not the best (26th in the world i read recently)
You'd be surprised how many french university graduates don't
German kindergarten kids know more than these americans. And our school system is not that good either.
@@oucema Nope, that's just not true. I'm a bit of a geography nerd here in Austria (I'm going to assume that general education levels are somewhat comparable across western Europe, so France will probably be similar). There's a JetPunk quiz I love to do where you are presented a map and you have to name as many countries as you can. I did this with basically all of my friends because I was genuinely curious how many they could guess. In my experience, even the least educated people can at least name 30-50 countries and know the general location of them. For university educated people (especially the ones who won't drop out) that goes up to roughly 80-100 countries. Some people seriously surprised me with 130+ countries.
I genuinely think the percentage of Europeans who couldn't point at, say, Russia, Brazil, the US, China or Austrlaia on a map must be in the single digits or at least not much higher than that. In university? Virtually nobody would NOT know where those countries are on a map.
Also, I try to make some of my American friends do this quiz from time to time but they categorically refuse to partake in my little social experiment. Go figure.
@@schtreg9140 Just did that JetPunk quiz and got 85. I knew more but I just blanked.
@@oucemaGeography is taught in highschool. It’s standard in almost every country in Europe. Most high schoolers know many of those answers already… probably not all countries in the whole world, but definitely the ones asked in the video. 💀
I think biggest difference of education between USA and Finland is how to learn. In US you commit to memory, in Finland we learn by understanding things, not just remember something what we don't understand. 🇫🇮
It's one thing to not know, it's a whole other thing to not know but confidently point to a completely wrong area anyway.
Ryan : "you don't even know that Spain is in Europe"... come on Ryan, that would not help her since she doesn't have a clue where Europe is, she's hopeless XD
Exactly, at least own it and say you don't know instead of pointing randomly...oh god
@@mindwis3 😂😂👏🏻
There is no shortage of Americans my age (60) and younger who think that Europe is a country. Ignorant know-it-alls who will explain Europe to Europeans in the most condescending way possible. I don't think any of these self proclaimed "Europe experts" could find Europe on a map at the first ten attempts if their lives depended on it.
And a whole other thing to find one's own ignorance amusing, without shame. Knowledge = uncool in the U.S.
I finally gave up on America last week, so I'm not sure why I'm watching this, as it's just confirming what I've already realised. Good luck.
These were probably the Kamala voters. The educated, the future science community, the elite to lecture the dumb people.
same thought
Don't worry. He will make the american education system great again💪
So that people will be able to name at least 10 countries, which everyone that went to a school should be able to do.
You know which way university students mostly voted, don't you?
@@Der_Kleine_Mann And of course it will be great countries, the best countries ever, bigly!
election results make a lot more sense now...
Sadly, yes.
Oh well fools be them😂@@missharry5727
yes, lots of trump voters in this demographic surely
I would put my hand on the fire that those in the video shown were not Trump voters for the most part.
Hear, hear. Grüße aus Australien. Tschüss.
I live in Europe, when I was kindergarten age my parents bought me series of science for kids books - geography, biology, history and physics. With a lots of images and facts. All my friends had about the same stuff. It was not normal to know nothing about the world.
But even if you didn't know anything about the world in kindergarten, you were drilled into knowing everything by high school age. It's simply impossible to go through school and not learn anything at all, including where your country is. Even if you had the lowest of grades you had to know at least basic things; because it had been poured into your head for years, over and over. This is simply incredible, unbelievable... like they never had a single geography class
uuuuhhh you just unlocked a core memory of mine. Here in Germany they were called the WAS IST WAS (what is what) books
@@lisabelw7782 In my country (eastern Europe) they were called "Everything about everything" books
I think that is one of the factors at work here: books, and the lack of them.
I once worked with a young American lady. Apparently, a graduate from Florida University, or some such place. She was quite proud that she'd gone through four or so years of tuition there without ever having read a book. Some sort of achievement in her mind. She believed this meant the US system of education was superior because all lessons were available online, and all text books condensed into crib-notes etc.
Totally oblivious to the impression of massive stupidity she presented to all around her.
I doubt she'd ever read a book in her life. A real book - not Facebook.
Yes normaly kids grow up with books movies about planet history cities lands maps like globus or how body work and more more like this ...its normal basic education standard teach our kids about world galaxy animals history not only watch realities tvies medias ....like US more stupid content more peoples and likes plus comments ....
My mum refused to buy Easter eggs for me and my brothers, instead she would buy us books. I felt cheated at the time, but the best book she bought me was a book on countries of the world which detailed its population, exports, religions, and notable historical facts. I was 8 years old and could name probably 90% of countries, describe its flags etc, and was a whizz on geography facts in pub quizzes in my teens. Fortunately my mum had the foresight to teach us, knowing the school system fails kids.
She was a great believer in teaching to our strengths and not just random rubbish ( that no one uses in adult life) she taught us to forage, money and banking and cooking from scratch.
We grew up money poor, but knowledge rich 👌🏻
"God Bless America" ... Definitely needed ...
I think it’s “heaven help America”
Russell Crowe's Gladiator, Best Actor, Oscar acceptance " God Bless America, god help New Zealand, thank god for Australia " 😊
I remember, some years ago when, using a similar process, adult Americans of a range of ages being asked if they thought that the US should bomb Sweden. The most common answer as I recall was a firm "yes!" Usually accompanied by some comment along the lines of the need to retain respect for America. There were a few puzzled "nos" and the ones I really liked were "yes, but only after they (Sweden) had been given a chance to back down.
Funny, yes, but terrifying when it is remembered that those people vote.
And that is how Trump won..
So you only waged war all over the world because you were lost?
that would be so hilarious bad if true :D
"Holy f***, there's no McDonald's here! I request support!"
@@swampraider3488 We are sending 10 Big Macs right away General, sir.
Like placing a red button in front of a toddler... bum bum bum, randomly... no more world...
'Murica, learning one country at a time 😂
it would be interesting to test them with a circular world map....some of them may think earth is flat...
🤣🤣🤣
You can be circular and flat. You meant spherical, maybe ?
😂😂
@@leseize26 hahaha excellent love this comment
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80 years ago you guys could pinpoint Japan with nukes, now you can't do it with a finger on a map
Ahh! That burns 🙈
@@caprea666 So did the cities
@@Potatwielder ... 🤐
To be fair, those guys are dead now
Russia can't nuke another country becuase their equiqment is obselete. USA cant nuke another country, becuase they dont know about other countries.
It is scary.
"He has a smart person watch" .. I miss the time when people were smart and watches just told time.. 😝
now the smart watch people can't tell time.
ps japan is not AN island. it's several islands. but i know what you mean
@@moonliteX so is the U.K., but we don’t make a big thing of it .
@@phoenix-xu9xj that's because people use the UK and britain (as in great britain, one island) interchangeably. because people say the for example the english etc are "british" and not united kingdoomers or what ever 😅. the "mainland" uk is mostly one large island (gb) and many small islands, but "mainland" japan is three equally large islands.
@@moonliteXone really big one and two smaller ones - Honshū is about as big as Kyūshū and Shikoku together.
Hokkaidō is even a bigger one, but only got integrated into Japan at the end of the 19th century, as did Okinawa and its surroundings
Australia is made up of over 1800 Islands. I bet most Australians don't even know that, and I'm Australian.
@@triarb5790Aussie here. Wow,1800 is more than I’d imagined. Thanks, I learned something today.
7:04 "We dropped a couple of Nukes on it, should prolly at least be able to point out where it is" SAVAGE! 🤣🤣🤣
The best so far: 2:44
*Host:* "Name a country."
*Contestant:* "Africa." _(points at South America)_
_Ryan nervously laughs out of shame._
The thing that always amazes me about these type of videos, is how incredibly proud they are of their ignorance. Not ashamed at all.
Don't give up from hope, Ryan. Im quite sure you will be teaching the world map to your kid after seeing these videos. You will be proud of that kid when someone comes and asks this question there in the future. Greetings from Finland, have a good day.
Watching this Video, Ryan, i am very pleased to see a smart American!
I mean, the honesty and knowledge is not average!
To be fair : they all found the map with the right end of the
stick! That must have taken at least 10 years to learn in U.S.
education system 😂
Torture for you Ryan but a good laugh for the rest of us.
If naming and pointing at a country is difficult... imagine the horror of naming and pointing at 10 capitals. 😶🌫
General education in the USA has been a disaster for decades. I was in the USA twice in the 1990s and every second American was at the level of these "students". The scary thing is that you could ask Donald Trump the same questions and he would get everything wrong too. Despite the internet, humanity is becoming stupid😔
...greetings from Nordfriesland
These people would think Friesland was a new fast food joint 'Fries Land', and the capital was Hamburg.
"Damn bro don´t know what i am saying" tells everything haha :):)
Incredible. This *can't* be university students.
they prob went to trump university and got effed XD
Education in the US seems to be going backwards.
The younger the students, the more they know.
You still can't believe that they are that dumb, after we just saw how many of them really want to have Trump as president ?
Just watch this, that is more or less already the reality, beside the super powers of course :
THE BOYS' Antony Starr watches iconic Homelander scene
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Anthonys comment : USA, USA, USA .. yeah were dumb as fuck .. GUNS !!
btw.: Trump really said that he could literally kill a person in public and it wouldn't cost him any voters.
European pre schoolers (and probably asian toddlers) would do it better
in Harvard there will be a new course about Beyonce .. That's American culture 😂😂😂
Sending big hugs, considering that even worse times are about to come.
Thank you for recognising Australia Ryan.
there is no excuse to such horrible education , i don't blame someone in university to not knowing where is botswana , kosovo or bhutan . but at least you have to know the easy ones like usa mexico canada brazil france germany uk russia japan australia south africa ....etc
You might be right but it is still classist.
@@cutlers3618 how is it classist? esp in a "developed" country. you don't need to be rich to know at least 10 countries 🙄
I guees there're people who are born and raised in very specific conditions but they are prob less then 0.01% therefore not a "class" but exseption
@@KS_VIDEOTECH I have actually been to Bhutan, but I don't think at that age I could have found it on a map. Geography and history were both subjects I hated as taught. Languages, now.....
😂 do they not teach GEOGRAPHY in USA!?!??
Don't they read?
@@FM-jg1yr They dont read.
@@FM-jg1yr The recently re-elected president of U.S. was proud to say few years ago he never read a single book in his entire life.
They do. The kids are usually goofing off in the middle of class with not a care in the world.
Source: Grew up in the middle of Gen Z. Half of my classmates were surprised the material was even taught cause they didn't pay any attention.
I think you only get geography as a subject when you join the military. Or I hope they get some geography knowledge when they are in the military, I should say.
It's not just not knowing it's also confidently claiming to know when they have absolutely no clue.
The Dunning-Kruger effect.
7:52 They might not even know where Europe is.
Wow, Rayn is now at the standard European reaction level to dump idiots. When he talked about a mental image for South and North Korea, I couldn't agree more!
I think at that one point you were thinking of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea while you were wondering where Philippines is. Not sure what grade these kids are but non of them would have passed even grade school in finland.
They would have failed primary school here in Ireland.
@@gerardflynn7382 they would be booted from Kindergarten here in good ol' Germany XD (that said...our educational system is also very much outdated and downright bad).
Most Europeans, I came to meet, have a very broad knowledge about many things especially languages, geography and politics. It is always fun to meet new folks from around and you can start a conversational topic about so many different things with genuine interested and interesting people.
Geography is taught in elementry school in the Netherlands (kids 7 to 12 y.o.). All countries, capitals, big rivers, lakes, seas, mountain ereas of Europe, all the oceans, many countries in the Americas, Asia and a few in Africa. And in high school the kids learn about the perticular climates and landscapes there and much more.
@@europeangardenflower9812 that’s all in our curriculum too. But our culture glorifies stupidity, and the school system lets you pass and move forward regardless of how ignorant you are.
I can point at a minimum of 150 countys.. within about few minutes. This is average in Europe
yup. Like 8 yo kid in Europe would know at least 20% of all countries in a whole world.
That is absolutely not the average lol
@@alexandresilva3427 It is in the West
Don't know what the avg is, but I am sure a big percentage of people in Europe know and point to significantly more coutries than 10...
videos like this are just pure ragebait.
pretty sure the average american can point out a number of countries. probably fewer though.
also i'm pretty sure the average european CANT point out 150 countries. (working in education so i know)
either you are trolling or actually dellusional.
you should watch a video on college students not knowing where the "river" and the "sea" they chant about are, thats almost more painful then the theater kid talking about his movement class. omg....
12:01 She was actually closer than you think. French Guiana is part of France, and located in South America.
Yep, but that's almost as bad as pointing to Greenland when asked about Denmark
@@stannumowl I don't think these guys pointing on the random places on the map when asked to point on a country do know that Greenland belongs to Denmark, so... yeah, it would be just a result of some luck, the girl doesn't actually know about French Guiana or that Greenland is a part of Denmark, does she?
Yeah, I thought that. Aren't they even considered part of the E.U?
@@mehallica666 yep, French Guiana like Canary Islands and some other outermost regions are part of the EU
@@stannumowlI mean, she's not wrong, there was some historical context with Greenland and Denmark.
🎉This is actually real scary😮
Many of these people just blurt out random stuff to look "cool", but they are not.
5:33 As a person from Denmark I actually have to agree, eastern (particular south-eastern) Europe is tough, there is a lot of smallish, weirdly shaped countries there, so hard to tell exactly what is what....
Problem for me is that much have changed since I went to school. I can't point to all the Balkan countries as it was Yugoslavia when I went to school. I also tend to mix the Baltic states.
@@Gazer75the Baltics are easy: they are alphabetically ordered from North to South:
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. Learned that from following the war in Ukraine.
The Balkans, sorry, I know which ones are Slovenia and Croatia, but the rest is sketchy. The curse of being GenX.
No way are they serious! My 7 year old niece could name more! I would say I was an average or maybe just below average student at school. I could name you a lot lol. Countries in Africa some I would struggle to get correct positions but, I know where roughly. lol this must be a joke, honestly can’t believe it
To study in the USA must be really easy as an european :D another question: Does the maps looks different in the USA? For example America is in the middle of the map?
The prime meridian separates the eastern and western hemispheres and is central on globe projection maps. The most common depiction has it running through Greenwich, London. But I believe some countries (eastern?) show it from the other side running through far eastern Russia and the pacific, with the Americas on the right and Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia on the left.
The prime meridian SHOULD always be in the middle.
It's not really correct to say that it's easy for Europeans. It's different in general but the the difficulty varies greatly depending on the university. There are, of course, less renowned smaller universities of applied sciences up to the elite universities, which is of course very difficult for everyone. So basically the eight Ivy League universities (e.g. Yale, Harvard, Columbia etc.) So you can't say that in general.
Also keep in mind that the US that the USA does not really perform significantly worse than Germany in the Pisa test. But the question of education in the USA is very unequal and different depending on where you live (+ money)
I’m glad your daughter needed you. I am a place where no American dares to know and my first language is not even English.
Like your videos, seems like you're one of the smartest americans I've ever seen. And I've seen a lot of them
Trust me, it's not a generational issue. Back in the 80s I used to play Trivial Pursuit with my wife and her parents. I (French) would side with my mother-in-law (Swedish) against my wife and her dad (both US-born and raised). We'd run circles around them each and every time, with the largest knowledge gap in geography, history and science. That's how I found out, according to Trivial Pursuit, that about 60% of Americans couldn't place Florida on a map. The problem runs deeper than Gen Z.
Oh yes, it was a great loss for America that Brazil, its second largest country, left, I hope they are living well in their new home in Asia.
You don’t need to be ashamed or embarrassed Ryan! You’re not their teacher or professor. But the US Education System definitely needs to be fixed.
Love from 🇨🇦.
It's not a full explanation but it certainly doesn't help that the country of the US calls themselves "America", which is really a continent. The US consists of states, not countries, but the word state is also used meaning nation/country. Nowhere else in the world are people confused as to the difference between country and continent but it does make some sense that (uneducated) US citizens could be.
Very good point. One thing, though ... There actually is no "America". "The Americas" are 2 continents. North and South. ❤
@@RoxanneHudson-dd3bs "The Americas" is mostly an anglosphere thing. Most of the world views it as one continent.
@@to_loww Actually, no we don't. Those of us who went to school know it's 2 continents. I found your comment very strange.
@@to_loww
No.
The world doesn’t.
Having been to 119 countries (and a few places that aren’t countries), MOST people (with the exception of those from the USA) know where a good percentage of countries are.
@@to_loww Most of the world considers it two distinct continents. It varies from language to language whether "the Americas" or just "America" is more common to refer to both of them. In German for example the term "the Americas" doesn't exist. We just say "America" for both continents. However, the term is ambiguous because it can also be used synonymously for the United States.
You would assume all are kind of smart at least they decided to go to college…
and when you hear US mainstream media, particularly the left wing ones, go on & on about their voters being college/higher education students, & the right wings' being working class, & less educated, or highschool graduates 😂it's just actually all the same. As someone from outside, it's so silly lol
Nope, pappy and mommy paid for it, so they go.
Oof, that physically hurt. I mean, they probably only took the dumbest answers into the video, but still :/
To be honest, I'm not sure these videos are not edited heavily to give the effect of showing all these young people to be ignorant, because that's what people will click on, on YT, and comment angrily on, which all adds to revenue.
Him saying France '' you know French fries". As a belgian this hurts hahaha! They are called french fries yes! But they are from Belgium.
from low land. so it's from belgium, netherland and extrem north of france🤔
@monsieurlapinot2549 True Story but hey! You can say we are known for it.
That's because nobody cares about Belgium!
Sorry, I'm Dutch, I'm contractually obliged to make fun of Belgium. 😁
@@AxeGaijini love Belgium and they do have the best chips (fries)
@@AxeGaijin belgium are unlucky. they are annoyed by neighbor from north and south.
flamish hear joke of dutch and wallon and brussels people hear joke of french🥲
In every other country of the world a fifth grader could probably name at leasr 80 percent of the countries. WTH
That is about how many I know. I am glad I am a 5th grader in another country. Can I get universal health care now please?
Well that's another thing they don't necessarily have in the US either
@@richardmenz3257 no, out 800 military bases around the world need money for spreading FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY.
These are all geography majors as well 😂
That's scary
What? Where did you get that from? A few of them told their majors and none of them were geography. There was a communications major (horrible major) and another one majoring in... "movement"? What kind of major is that?
Most are majoring in the Kardashians.
12:02 French-Guyana is France. At least give her that.
"Jimmy Kimmel style ".... Not me thinking "Yeah, and Jay Leno , too".... I'm getting old😂😂😂😂
If you can cry, on behalf of America, there is still hope. Just spread the word.
Seeing this lot like this just makes me lose all hope in humanity! absolutely gobsmacked!
Hey Ryan, to cheer you up please react to an American that absolutely knows their geography.. ‘RAINBOLT TWO’. You will appreciate it.
So a lot of these guys are worried that Trump got voted but not about being as educated as a 5 year old. Are they aware that some of their generation will someday have to lead the country?
Perish the thought.
Looks like americans are trying to be as dumb as dump
Lack of education isn't dangerous as long as they don't get into power, but dictators are
Lack of education isn't dangerous as long as they don't get into power, but dictators are
Make an educated guess why Trump won. You have three tries.
My 5 year old nephew brazilian nephew is playing the same game, but instead of the name of the country he only gets a flag and he then have to identify the correct country. He doesnt make one error...
Unfortunately a lot of Americans think that Europe is a Country. 😂😂
They should at the very least be able to point out the countries that they have invaded.
And Trump said: "Brussels is a great country"
c’est normal, puisqu'ils s'appellent eux-mêmes "Américains"... cela montre leur respect des autres pays en Amérique... heureusement qu'ils ont les super-héros pour sauver le Monde...
How could one forget about the last remaining absolute monarchy besides the Vatican, the country of Antarctica! Its head of state: the Emperor Penguin!
I'm with you Ryan, he must have paid, at least some of them?! I'm absolutely certain that all living in US knows where US is, come on?!!!
I have experienced that not all living in the US know where it is on a world map, even people in high positions in multi-national corporations, and I'm not confident that these "students" could act at all either.
@@KeesBoons Agree. Didn't seem like acting to me all. Also imagine having so little self-respect to agree to appear this dump in a video watched by thousands or potentially millions. Either way this video tells you a lot about how stupidity & ignorance is not only tolerated but pretty much celebrated in the US.
Not even knowing where you family come from is bad!
Yay, Ryan, our honourable Aussie but you must be really embarrassed. We Aussies just shake our heads in disbelief at most Americans but you are an exception. Seriously don't they read books, look at the internet?
Central and eastern Europe are tricky for me too
It is a few years since I was at school some countries have divided up and borders have moved and names changed
When I went to school Germany was two countries and Yugoslavia was only one
Updates are available on the internet. With maps. No excuse. You're welcome.
"It is sad that I am happy, she at least ..." nailed it.
You know what's extremely concerning, the fact that they have no clue about the different continents and their specificities, this would have given them big clues about the locations
While it's clear that these clips are cherry picked to just show the dumbest answers they got, it's still scary that there is so many of them.
How can so many people lack so much curiosity about the world about them.
Unbelievable. Surely they cannot be so dumb. They have to be joking.
This Aussie just cannot believe them
I would have said the same but unfortunately I have talked with people who genuinely believed ham came from chicken and that Sweden is a city in US…
Listening to these kind of videos makes my head hurt xD
They have the geographical knowledge of a North Korean, incredible. How do the Americans manage to sail their submarines and ships across the Atlantic or Pacific?
ask them how to make a tik tok i bet they know all about that
@@FM-jg1yr
Regrettably, this Aussie can believe them. Most teens in Oz now only have a primary school level of geography, but having travelled to the US, most teens there have kindergarten level (at best).
That kid from the Philippines definitely knew more, but they didn’t ask him. At the very least, he clearly knew both where the Philippines themselves were and where Asia as a continent was. So I sm pretty sure they do pick out the most outrageous reactions. It would be nice to see more of a mix tho with also some people getting things right for a change!
My history teacher here in Finland, it was the beginning of 7 th grade, gave us a simple task: " Here is a blank A3 paper. Draw the map of the world. Draw the continents, seas, countries, rivers, cities, towns, mountains, lakes etc. .. name everything you know" It was supposed to be like 1 hr class, but we were allowed to stay longer. No-one left after 1 hour, I was there for 6 hrs. My map was far, far from being good. - but it has thrived me all these years to learn more about the world
We had to learn the countries of the world & be able to label a complete map in grade 4 or 5 - Canada.
How can some people be so ignorant of the world we all live in?
Have any of you gone to American college and have some sort of intuitive read on how many of your fellow students would ace these easy questions?
whatching this hurts so much i cant
12:11 Tell me you American without telling me you're American.
Never mind covid, even if you never went to school, just being alive and awake you'd learn at least something about the world around you.
This crazy !! it must be a joke.
Its not!
I was at primary school in Scotland in the 1980s and we had a series of books called "Find the Place". They were a series of maps that showed where countries, cities and features like rivers were. One year, we studied the UK, one year we studied Europe, and one year we studied the rest of the world. In our end-of-term geography tests, we were asked to mark, on a blank map, various cities and rivers etc. The way it was assessed was that if we were more than one millimetre off, we got it marked wrong. Imagine that. "Put a cross on this map where Buenos Aires is located". And they had a piece of tracing paper with the correct location on it that they overlaid on our answers, measured how close we got, and we only got credit if we were within one millimetre of the precise location. We were 10 years old.
So, as you can imagine, this kind of ignorance leaves me utterly stunned.
If anyone still asks how Trump could happen - even the academics fail education wise. I am happy that at least people like you exist, Ryan, otherwise the world would completely lose hope for your country…
The same way Biden happened 😂
don't ever check how the university teachers almost 100% vote or you will be shocked.
Despite people like Ryan I already lost this hope.
A drop in the ocean...
I was 16 when I first heard Americans couldn't point out their own country, so it's not a Gen Z issue lol. (I'm 40 now, and could point out all of the named countries...I'd absolutely have problems with most African ones though...)
When American students think about the world, they see a black wall. No, I can't clairvoyant, I just saw this video. 😁
12:03 Technically, if what she's referencing around that general area is French Guiana (which is still a French territory) then she's not completely wrong. But most of the time, that's a lucky guess.
OMG, I have watched many of these videos of Americans trying to name countries on a map and general knowledge. Now, after America voted in Donald Trump as the next president, I now do understand why.
Aussie...and Yes!
@@Australiacalling students vote more for democrats...
These people voted for Kamala, who is far dumber than Trump. Have you even seen Kamala speak? "Ukraine is a country is Europe and Russia is big country blablabla"
@@monsieurlapinot2549 I was gonna say the same, but you beat me to it... plus, didn't Trump already made it his mission to bring back the basic subjects ( literature, maths, geography, history, etc.) into the Education System, and abolish the study of whatever the bright haired teachers were teaching? No offense, but that's not a bad thing, imo.
@@m0t0b33 never heard Trump say that. Trump is full of conspiracy theories period. If what you say is true, that's good thing, but Trump would need to go back to school himself, dumbest man in history, maybe starting at grade 3 level.
By the way, teachers just can't start teaching whatever they like, they have curriculum to follow.
You can't blame the education system for these people not knowing general knowledge questions, you should be able to learn all this themselves.
Meanwhile me, a 40 y.o. man from Poland, majoring in music, knowing majority of countries now, and half of countries' borders from 500 years ago period (I played a lot in Europa Universalis IV)
Ok, I know a lot of countries, but I realise I don't know where exactly is Korea or Ukraine. And I say this as a European. I'm going to study a map right now.
I found a fun app (in french) to learn countries: Romap. They give you two different countries and you have to link them by naming countries in between. Something similar probably exists in English. Very efficient. I've been on it all afternoon because of this video.
He probably needed to stand there several hours to find these absolut clueless people. Looks like rage baiting to me.
I don't want to defend any of the students, but we Europeans shouldn't forget that, unlike us, US citizens don't have to leave their country to get from the beach to snow-covered mountains. But the fact that you can't find your own home on the map is more than sad.
Not every European has to leave their country to go from a beach to the mountains.
Think of France, Spain, Germany.
@@defender4004
1. You forgot Poland, Italy and the whole of Scandinavia.
2. That was meant figuratively to show that Americans, unlike Europeans, rarely leave their country, not even on vacation/holidays
@@onnasenshi7739
1 The list wasn’t meant to be complete. Just examples.
2 You don’t have to leave your country, not even your home, to learn about other countries.
That is a weak excuse annasenshi7739 for US students
@@defender4004
OK, once again very slowly, so that you also understand, because you are not much better than these students at seeing things from all sides.
The education system in the USA is different, there is not much emphasis on general knowledge, the knowledge that is needed in life is learned (why else are there so many excellent professionals from the USA?). Most Americans are also not interested in what happened in the past, because they live in the here and now.
To go back to what I mentioned at the beginning, the bigger a country is and the less dependent you are on others, the less interest you have in other countries. If I were to ask you questions about Burkina Faso now, I don't think you would be able to answer any of them (myself included), Burkina Faso doesn't play a role for Europe.
I mentioned traveling because you can also learn about cultures by traveling. You said that today you can learn everything without leaving your country, of course I can also look at Leonardo da Vinci's painting in the Sistine Chapel on the internet or in books, but seeing it in real life is something else. This experience alone could awaken your interest in art, which a simple picture cannot do.
you could argue that they may have been paid to participate in this exercise and act dumb to get views. Based on what I have experienced when travelling and have been asked by American Tourists. I would say this is a reasonably accurate snapshot
6:10 okay, ofc Kazakhstan and Mongolia is not Ukraine, but for a guess, it isn't the worst wrong options at least, but also the best geusses in the entire video sadly
Sometimes I feel blue, sometimes I feel stupid and bad with myself. At such time it would be great to suddenly appear at such place and feel genius