In the Balkans you have to know Geography so you can claim all your neighbours lands as "historically yours", in the US you have to know Geography to not get humiliated on the internet, WE ARE NOT THE SAME.
As a French resident its nice that Americans know so much about our continent Paris. Also I'll be visiting Eiffel Tower in London soon! Vive la Britain.
I’m a Brit and my favourite history teacher said to our class in year 7 ‘there’s no point learning history if you don’t know the geography or culture of that place. You’ll not understand the history of it.’ And he was right!
I took a class in the history of Southeast Asia 50 yrs ago in college and the first thing the professor did was give us a map of the area and make us learn where all of the countries were. I am still really good at placing countries in Asia. Africa is still a bit of a challenge though I have been working on it.
My AP human geography teacher had use do geography test, but now we don’t do them anymore, but I can tell you the names of a bunch of countries in the African continent, Europe, Asia, etc.
I once had a question in a business exam where it basically asked to sort a list of countries (I remeber Iceland, Vietnam, Syria, Australia, Croatia, Bahamas) into continents, with some business-related context. And after the exam many complained, I was so disgusted
One time we were supposed to pick a country to do a project on And this one girl wanted to do Alaska We told her it’s the USA but she “didn’t want to do the us because other people were” *proceeded to do Alaska which is part of the us*
The reality of every nationality and as such NATION in the world, is that by all means a State IS what a country is. Not only do massive, oppressive federations call themselves "nationalities", they call economically insignifacnt states flyover state, and every STATE beyond the capital city essetnially flyover region. This is not normal, this is the political equivalent of Chinese bodunk cities washing their restaurant plates in dirty river water, and it's COMPLETELY normalized. The drafting of political will and tax resources even is built to serve this function, and that's why democracies work the way they do, simply functioning as accountability sinks so that a democratic voter is never accountable. For his atrocities that rival dictatorships, when a person with authority makes similar decisions witohut a scapegoat in "the corrupt politicians". Only in democracies are POLITICIANS that black mark on POLITICS, anywhere else like real republicks politics equals diplomacy and NOT the military industrial complex, economy of war. Deomcracy doesn't boil down entirely to voting, but in democracies voting is like food stamps of political power, and it's the ONLY currency that voters trade in that field. It's a ghetto, it's a project housing distirc. THAT is why people have no clue what a country IS, beyond their local governor, a robber baron in a high tower.
@@sboinkthelegday3892So, every nationality is a country. Ok, so, according to your logic, Rome is a country today. Because Roman is a nationality. Burgundy is a country, because Burgundian. No. A nationality does not mean country. Officially UN recognized countries, are, shocker, countries. Nothing else
In England, the curriculum states that by the age of 7 children should know the name of all the continents, and the major oceans, and name and locate the 4 countries of the UK, and their capital cities, as well as the main features of their local area, as well as the beginning of basic geographical skills like map reading. It's a totally different approach to the importance of geography....
The girl saying „there’s no country in Africa“ is actually a time Traveller where the African Union truly united. Damn, Drew literally made this joke by the time I finished writing lol
@@AdikenStanI think the person meant that before colonization there were technically no African countries aside fromm Egypt and Ethiopia. Most African countries were made by colonizers
I once was on holiday in Spain. My grandma and I was eating at an restaurant, and when we went to leave, two Americans on the next table guessed we were from Czechoslovakia. They were so shocked when I told them we are from Norway lol.
@@NorweiganKarl Let me ask you this, are you caught up on your South American geography, or your African geography? You Europeans think you are all so important that we should know everything about your continent that y’all do. The simple truth is Norway and pretty much any part of Europe that isn’t Western or Central Europe just aren’t an important enough place for us to be able to distinguish between y’all without being told where y’all are from. Americans are never thinking about Norwegians so why would they automatically know when they see one? When you see someone from Thailand would you automatically know they’re from Thailand just from a basic conversation? I want to cap everything off by saying just because I say Norway isn’t important to us doesn’t mean I’m trying say that Norway isn’t important at all. Obviously to Norway and it’s neighbors, they are very important, but that’s not gonna be the case for everyone.
@@williamhardee8863 lemme tell you this. As I commented this just to tell a funny story, I do believe in everything you said. However, I think that the European school system is better, since we are being taught a little bit from every part of the world, not just all about a little place. And I am actually, caught up on some of the things going on in South America and Africa, but I am not caught up on all of it. You prove a valid point, but we over here in Europe are also taught things about the rest of the world.
A friend of mine (american) that I met few years back was shocked because I was working in Tunisia at the time and he didn't know where it was located and when I told him in Africa he was fascinated as to how they have access to the internet!!
Yep, I can relate, I am Brazilian and some guy was telling me, (a Brazilian) that Brazil is in Africa and he would not accept it when I told him that he was wrong... so wrong. And when I first came to the US in 1972, many students, (I was in the 10th grade) seemed to think that I had never seen or ridden in a car, (I was born and raised in São Paulo). I decided to have a bit of fun at their expense and regalled them with stories of "living in the jungle" and "hunting for breakfast". And they ate it up. Their ignorance of their Country and the World in which they live came as a shock to me. I couldn't believe that American kids were so dumb about everything, they also thought that since I lived in Brazil, I must've had some "good weed", I had heard of marijuana in Brazil but had never seen it and didn't know anyone who had even seen it, let alone tried it. That was another shock for me, that crap was EVERYWHERE, pot, pills, hashish, it was mind boggling. I Also thought that American High School was a joke, I was placed in the 10th grade but I had covered it all in a Brazilian School 2 years earlier. Ended up graduating 2 years early. Loved American girls though, WOW! damn! did I love American girls, (still do).
the teacher of the ninth grade history class at my school (in the US) made them make paper maps of the world. some highlighs included a map with only the UK and spain in europe, the UK was in the middle and spain was an island. another one had all of central america perfectly filled out but the only thing in africa was "nile". and the worst one forgot about south america and australia.
As an American who is extremely good at history and geography this almost physically hurt me too watch Also side note, recently a few people at my school said that learning geography and history was useless right to my face and I felt like I was gonna implode right then and there-
As a Quebecer (and therefore a French-Canadian), I laughed out loud, happy to see that our neighbors know so much about the world around them! (On a more serious note, include geography classes in your educational program, a 10-year-old Canadian knows his geography much better than any of the Americans in this video).
To be fair about not knowing where Ukraine is, a lot of my geography knowledge is based on staring at the maps in classrooms. When I graduated in 2013 it still wasn't uncommon to see pre-1991 maps that they never bothered to replace.
Lol here in India we have a single chapter (at least 20-40 pages) dedicated to a single continent in class 5( age 9)we had maps which were hard. Questions were like this: Point out the concentration of red soil in the continent of Africa 😂 lol those were some days
Yes those were the days, as if the Indian history, which has a gazillion empires and periods, and Indian geography aren't enough, I had to learn the geography of France and Nigeria lol.
Reletable for an Italian although we did it later, we had ( around the age of 12-14) to point out the capitals the lakes and rivers of the various continents and then describing the various geographic differences and the which sectors would have been more advantaged and disadvantaged in such territory ( for example in the Jungle Exotic fruits may be grown more easily while anything regarding the Tertiary sector won’t just have the infrastructure to be supported) while a plain area near a river will be more useful for Industries such as ( we also had to make examples) the Solvay.
@@Harshiahaha To be fair, I had to learn a bit of Indian geography (topography and density of population, that kind of stuff). Thanks to god and a limited amount of time, I didn't had to study Indian history.
When I was in grade school in the United States, in the 1960's and 70's, we did learn Geography as a discrete subject. Every year from 4th to 8th grade we covered about 1 continent each. We learned the names of countries and their capitals, the major mountain ranges, rivers, lakes, and other geographical features, the climates that could be found there, major agricultural products, and of course we learned to read maps. I don't know why or when we stopped doing that. Of course countries have changed drastically since then.
Growing up, I had a shower curtain that had the countries of the world on it. I had a Current events class that had map quizzes, I would study while showering 😂. I got perfect scores the whole time, I'm pretty proud of that.
I don’t even know how my siblings and I know some geography and some flags. We’ve pretty much never been taught it in school but somehow all of us can identify more countries and flags correctly than our friends
@@the-bz3zt Yes video games are actually a good way to learn some things. When i was younger i played a lot of minecraft and back then it was only available in english. So I automatically learned a lot of vocabulary
I’ll never forget the first day of senior year of high school in aquatic science. The teacher gave us a world map to name all the oceans. I kid y’all not literally one other person and I in the class were able to name them correctly. Some people couldn’t even name more than three. I was baffled🤣
Well there are only three undisputed ones. The Arctic ocean isn't always considered one, I think the Southern/Antarctic ocean is generally recognized as one but a compelling case can be made against it, and the Caspian may or may not count as Ocean depending on who you ask.
As someone who is under 12th grade PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD LET ME BE ON ONE OF THESE PUBLIC MEDIA INTERVIEWS! I’m only worried about them scrambling the clips to make me look dumb
As an American that can name most of the countries in Europe, and a big chunk of Asia I am saddened by the fact that a large number of Americans can’t point out we’re America is on a map. 😢
I'm 99% sure every one of these 'Muricans *dumb!* ' videos or what have you are entirely scripted. No one from this country could fail to identify the United States on a map, not unless that person is blind. I doubt anyone from this country would fail to identify Canada, Mexico, France or the UK, average people might not readily know all of the rest.
@Iosinyhrh Haha great response to someone who couldn't get past the fourth word before making one of many mistakes. There should be a browser extension to auto-hide comments with "by the fact".
@@Lybrel ESL bro? In this context, "Person + 'Made X' + 'by the fact that' + '...'" is a perfectly acceptable construction; it's just about the most uncontroversial thing I've seen someone take issue with. If you're going to insult someone, at least know the subject of contention well enough to do so. English isn't as rigid as you think: you can get away with a lot of things uneducated people will mistakenly call "incorrect".
1:11 As an Indian, I can confirm that we invented the pizza, pasta and spaghetti. Julius Ceaser was definitely born in Pataliputra (present day Patna) in 369BC and yes we switched sides during WW2.
@@Boretheory but one month after the surrender, it did join the war against its former ally, so it did kind-of switch sides. Also, they had switched sides during WW1, so there's that. :-)
@@irrelevant_noob nono They didn’t as in WWII the new government was formed by CCP and Partisans which fought by allies side from the start, the fascist regime continued to fight with the German with the republic of Salo In WWI even less as Italy left the alliance because Austria infringed point 4 and 7 in which it couldn’t start a war in the balcans. They tried to convince Italy but it preferred to leave the alliance. It joined the war but a year later
I genuinely think that a big reason why the average Latinamerican and European kid might be better at least at recognizing countries’ flags than the average American kid is thanks to football (soccer). This is by far the biggest sport in the world that has healthy international competition year round. As a kid I learned about the then very new country of Croatia and their flag thanks to them making it into the France 98 World Cup and surprising everyone by making it to the semifinals. Before that tournament I had never ever heard the name of that country! Most Americans are interested in sports that for the most part feature teams from the US only (maybe a couple from Canada) and I think that has a lot to do.
I never understood the excuse “I wasn’t taught geography in school so why should I know” You hear names of countries in the media and out and about in conversations. How do you not have the curiosity to see where that is? At the very least the continent or that Africa is not a country. You don’t even need to actively learn that to know that …
these sort of videos (the one you're reacting to) have a very very high chance of just cutting off all the right answers, because making people look dumb is generaly more entertaining. I would be very interested in seeing one, that is completely unedited so we can get a real idea of what people do or do not know.
Don't know how today's geography lessons in Sweden are, but I went to middle school in the 1960s, we had "blind maps". I loved it. Blind map = only boundaries are drawn. On some also cities, lakes and rivers, but no names. It was educational! Too bad kids in the US don't get the chance to learn it.
It's crazy to think that so many people have literally been spinning on some giant space rock for years and never wanted to be like "oh, where tf am I?" Like, don't you want to know where you are in relation to everything else on this planet!?
To be fair if you can tell where your country are and maybe some of your neighbors it's good enough. Like I won't know which Africa or ME country is which either.
As Indian seeing my country map this long making me scared 😅❤️ This Geopraphy things we studying since 1st grade to 10th grade and I was like: are you ok my human people out there
What makes me always sad is not that people are bad at geography (many even feel bad about it). What is terrible is that people usually are proud, they are bad at math.
now I want to have a new channel by drew asking people on the streets and the money goes directly into his medical bill because he is going to get insane after 2 minutes
It’s not just the USA for bad geography classes.I live in Canada and took a geography course, the first 2 lessons were on where things are and the rest were on “ how to harass fast food employees to make less waste” or sweat shops. I learn more from this channel then the 4 month I was in that class makes you think eh
Yeah, in Canada you basically do colouring sheets (I think that’s what they’re called) until high school and you’ll learn about provinces and territories. That’s basically all of Canadian geography class.
1:57 in the UK I had geography tests, but they were nothing to do with country flags and locations, that was what we were expected to learn ourselves, we did do Kahoots and class quizzes for fun lessons though about flags and country shapes
I wonder if Geography is taught differently at different places and times, Like I learned about basic geography in elementary and middle school, And had a whole 2 classes dedicated to Geography and Geopolitics in High School, and I was in a pretty bum school honestly, it wasn't that well funded but we still had like a Geography, Health, Economics, Federal/State Law and Statistics class in High School so I just don't know people don't know some basic stuff.
It is. Different countries and districts have different curriculums. As far as I know, Teachers decide how to teach their students and if they pass there regional test then they can move up grades.
I'm too curious to know how was this Geopolitics class you had in High School. Do you mind telling me what did they teach you more concretly in that class?
We didn’t have much education in the form of „which countries are where?“ but more about Passat winds, minerals, economical and ecological considerations. We were supposed to learn the locations on our own and turned out fine.
Some anecdata: I went to extremely well-regarded and well-funded public schools in Chicagoland. We had very limited geography in 7th grade Social Studies and that's it. That was 1986-87, for me. We covered US states and capitals. Same with European countries and their capitals. For the rest of the world, we had a single quiz that required labeling 10 or 12 countries/capitals. That was about it. In high school, all I had was AP US and European History classes. At a highfalutin university, I took a bunch of history classes for fun, but they didn't even offer geography classes, not that I would have taken one. However, I picked up a lot of geography on my own via learning about history. That, plus watching Olympics and being generally curious, was sufficient for me to be able to list about 175 countries when I tried during my late-30s. That was impetus to get me to fill in the gaps, which were mostly not knowing which islands were sovereign nations vs territories. Now I can list all countries and maybe 90% of the capitals without any problem....a little more problem if it involves spelling the capitals of Brunei, South Ossetia, etc.. My point is almost all of that was self-motivated away from schools. Someone could have easily gone through the same schools I did without know much of anything about geography beyond where some white people live and are from. Some USians do have more robust, formal geography instruction in school, but it varies greatly.
Diff countries and regions or even sometimes states do have diff curriculum but they all usually do include common basic knowledge. Not sure if they bunked class or teachers forgot to teach them.
I did this in my college dorm last year. The history and politics science majors were the best (duh). Some business majors did pretty well, but most weren’t great. The fashion majors did the worst
yep acording to people from berlin pablo escobar is mexican and india is in africa i guess some of our people here in europe got infected with the illness called s.t.u.p.i.d wich came from america
@@gambri1980 it is a country after all wich is why its not being shown with its states borders because its a world map if you look at a national map of the usa you will see them
Erdkunde (geography) is 5th grade up in germany , Heimat-/Sachkunde (Geography of Germany)= 1st to 4th grade So in the First 4 years we learn everything about our own state and country and then from 5th grade we leave Germany to learn about the World, starting with Europe. Plus in 5th Grade history starts and is intertwined. When i was 15 (31 years ago i even was able to Show most of the 50 states on a map , your states that is)
1:57 As someone who is currently in the American public school system, they now teach us about geography (we start learning about it in fifth grade) so yes, they’re some making progress 😄
5:05 there is this dude that had a program on dutch television, where the premise was that he wanted the Netherlands to become the 51 state of america so that in retrospect, he was born in amurica and could run for president, this was around the Obama era 😂 he toured amurica with a big bus with Van Rossum for president! With his head and amurican flag on it and all 😂 🇺🇸🇺🇸 he said, the more i went down south the more people liked the idea and didnt mind a foreign president because their president already came from Nigeria 💀
As a citizen of Africa city, Americans have earned my respect
As an Africa, I respect the Amaricans for knowing about Africa city, it's usually outshined by Asia city.
As a person who lives in the forgotten on the map country, I think you guys outshine us
@@mayortyranno4645forgotten? Non-existent!
@@OfficialBostNew Zealand exists.
@@DopeSauceBenevolence No it doesn't . The media is lying to you. Everyone who claims to live in New zealand is a paid actor
In the Balkans you have to know Geography so you can claim all your neighbours lands as "historically yours", in the US you have to know Geography to not get humiliated on the internet, WE ARE NOT THE SAME.
Debercen is romania
Based comment
@@catac1869 Monaco is Transdniper
@@TheCriminalViolinKaliningrad is Czechia
It's all Yugoslavia.
As a French resident its nice that Americans know so much about our continent Paris. Also I'll be visiting Eiffel Tower in London soon! Vive la Britain.
@@patrickchapman3242 no no, that would be next to the great wall of china, by antarctica 👍
but isn't australia very far from paris ?
it's in British Museum.
@@gizel4376 It's just east of Switzeland, so not that far through the Alps.
Hope your parisians will join our great country of Eiffel Tower someday. It is so nice, settled in the middle of Africa, Tokyo. From a fellow italian.
I’m a Brit and my favourite history teacher said to our class in year 7 ‘there’s no point learning history if you don’t know the geography or culture of that place. You’ll not understand the history of it.’ And he was right!
I took a class in the history of Southeast Asia 50 yrs ago in college and the first thing the professor did was give us a map of the area and make us learn where all of the countries were. I am still really good at placing countries in Asia. Africa is still a bit of a challenge though I have been working on it.
@@chronic2023 Sporcle quizzes helped me a lot in that regard. Names of countries, their outlines, their flags, etc.
But was he from the country of the moon?
My AP human geography teacher had use do geography test, but now we don’t do them anymore, but I can tell you the names of a bunch of countries in the African continent, Europe, Asia, etc.
"Name one country in Africa"
"Kenya"
Proceeds to say that Tanzania is Kenya
Fr bro
I once had a question in a business exam where it basically asked to sort a list of countries (I remeber Iceland, Vietnam, Syria, Australia, Croatia, Bahamas) into continents, with some business-related context. And after the exam many complained, I was so disgusted
I’m dogshit at finding tiny islands so I would complain about but complaining cuz of Syria, that’s sad
@@UberChargeGaming-ek4nm Iraq?
@@Mrbeetroot10 I’m being stupid I meant Syria
@@UberChargeGaming-ek4nm ok
based for knowing croatia
Words cannot describe how much pain I feel watching these people
same
but it is FUNNI 🤣😂
@@DBT1007 Is it tho?
Mfers when Americans don’t know where Glouchesterbuttfuckshire, England or the capital of Shitcockburg is.
Most of them are scripted so ....
One time we were supposed to pick a country to do a project on
And this one girl wanted to do Alaska
We told her it’s the USA but she “didn’t want to do the us because other people were”
*proceeded to do Alaska which is part of the us*
you didn't have to cut me off-
The reality of every nationality and as such NATION in the world, is that by all means a State IS what a country is. Not only do massive, oppressive federations call themselves "nationalities", they call economically insignifacnt states flyover state, and every STATE beyond the capital city essetnially flyover region.
This is not normal, this is the political equivalent of Chinese bodunk cities washing their restaurant plates in dirty river water, and it's COMPLETELY normalized. The drafting of political will and tax resources even is built to serve this function, and that's why democracies work the way they do, simply functioning as accountability sinks so that a democratic voter is never accountable.
For his atrocities that rival dictatorships, when a person with authority makes similar decisions witohut a scapegoat in "the corrupt politicians". Only in democracies are POLITICIANS that black mark on POLITICS, anywhere else like real republicks politics equals diplomacy and NOT the military industrial complex, economy of war. Deomcracy doesn't boil down entirely to voting, but in democracies voting is like food stamps of political power, and it's the ONLY currency that voters trade in that field. It's a ghetto, it's a project housing distirc. THAT is why people have no clue what a country IS, beyond their local governor, a robber baron in a high tower.
@@sboinkthelegday3892 You good bro?
@@sboinkthelegday3892bet you are the girl in the story defending her reasoning
@@sboinkthelegday3892So, every nationality is a country. Ok, so, according to your logic, Rome is a country today. Because Roman is a nationality. Burgundy is a country, because Burgundian. No. A nationality does not mean country. Officially UN recognized countries, are, shocker, countries. Nothing else
In England, the curriculum states that by the age of 7 children should know the name of all the continents, and the major oceans, and name and locate the 4 countries of the UK, and their capital cities, as well as the main features of their local area, as well as the beginning of basic geographical skills like map reading.
It's a totally different approach to the importance of geography....
"Where's North Korea"
"It's in Africa''
*Points somewhere in Europe*
The girl saying „there’s no country in Africa“ is actually a time Traveller where the African Union truly united.
Damn, Drew literally made this joke by the time I finished writing lol
Funny fact:Africa will never be United because there are probably of thousands tribes
She lives in time before colonisation
@@jattikuukunen Bruh what lol Africa wasnt united before colonization LOL
@@AdikenStanI think the person meant that before colonization there were technically no African countries aside fromm Egypt and Ethiopia. Most African countries were made by colonizers
@@goodiegamer4484 Egypt is not African. Opinion discarded.
I once was on holiday in Spain. My grandma and I was eating at an restaurant, and when we went to leave, two Americans on the next table guessed we were from Czechoslovakia. They were so shocked when I told them we are from Norway lol.
Bro they are the same, like both are in europe and they also emmmm they also ummmm emmmm uhhhh yeah...
czechoslovakia? how long ago was this?
@@juanvarughese8096 happened this year actually… think they weren’t updated on their geography🤷🏼♂️
@@NorweiganKarl Let me ask you this, are you caught up on your South American geography, or your African geography? You Europeans think you are all so important that we should know everything about your continent that y’all do. The simple truth is Norway and pretty much any part of Europe that isn’t Western or Central Europe just aren’t an important enough place for us to be able to distinguish between y’all without being told where y’all are from. Americans are never thinking about Norwegians so why would they automatically know when they see one? When you see someone from Thailand would you automatically know they’re from Thailand just from a basic conversation? I want to cap everything off by saying just because I say Norway isn’t important to us doesn’t mean I’m trying say that Norway isn’t important at all. Obviously to Norway and it’s neighbors, they are very important, but that’s not gonna be the case for everyone.
@@williamhardee8863 lemme tell you this. As I commented this just to tell a funny story, I do believe in everything you said. However, I think that the European school system is better, since we are being taught a little bit from every part of the world, not just all about a little place. And I am actually, caught up on some of the things going on in South America and Africa, but I am not caught up on all of it. You prove a valid point, but we over here in Europe are also taught things about the rest of the world.
Hilarious to see Drew defending his fellow Americans😂
his fellow americans
I swear we're not all like this
Yeah
@@godofcheese5528 lies
As an American myself, I can feel his pain.
A friend of mine (american) that I met few years back was shocked because I was working in Tunisia at the time and he didn't know where it was located and when I told him in Africa he was fascinated as to how they have access to the internet!!
Yep, I can relate, I am Brazilian and some guy was telling me, (a Brazilian) that Brazil is in Africa and he would not accept it when I told him that he was wrong... so wrong. And when I first came to the US in 1972, many students, (I was in the 10th grade) seemed to think that I had never seen or ridden in a car, (I was born and raised in São Paulo). I decided to have a bit of fun at their expense and regalled them with stories of "living in the jungle" and "hunting for breakfast". And they ate it up. Their ignorance of their Country and the World in which they live came as a shock to me. I couldn't believe that American kids were so dumb about everything, they also thought that since I lived in Brazil, I must've had some "good weed", I had heard of marijuana in Brazil but had never seen it and didn't know anyone who had even seen it, let alone tried it. That was another shock for me, that crap was EVERYWHERE, pot, pills, hashish, it was mind boggling. I Also thought that American High School was a joke, I was placed in the 10th grade but I had covered it all in a Brazilian School 2 years earlier. Ended up graduating 2 years early. Loved American girls though, WOW! damn! did I love American girls, (still do).
the teacher of the ninth grade history class at my school (in the US) made them make paper maps of the world. some highlighs included a map with only the UK and spain in europe, the UK was in the middle and spain was an island. another one had all of central america perfectly filled out but the only thing in africa was "nile". and the worst one forgot about south america and australia.
9:15 Are we not gonna talk about the fact that they put kenya in tanzanai for no reason
Had to scroll hundreds of comments before finding someone mentioning this 😂
Oh yes we are gonna talk about it And that Drew did not care
Bro the second I saw this I knew something was off
As an American who is extremely good at history and geography this almost physically hurt me too watch
Also side note, recently a few people at my school said that learning geography and history was useless right to my face and I felt like I was gonna implode right then and there-
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@@desertclawsYou can edit comments 😊
oh no how dare someone learn about the world around them and its past - them probably
Man still the worst thing about this every one of those idots and your vote will be seen equal
and then they join the military and bomb switzerland instead of germany lmao or ukraine instead of russia would be more fitting in this time
Yeah, Ikea's totally a country 💀
You’re so true
Ya I live in IKEA it’s pretty nice here I guess…
Ikea is too big to be a country, Ikea is a planet
I'm 13 years old and I learn geography from TH-cam now I can locate almost every country in a world map
Same but I’m only 1 month old
@@Artgamesandmusicplus same but I’m only 2 weeks old
I’ve known since 8
@@Leemer-512 I love that after a year this entire thread randomly appeared lol
I’m 12 and I’m considered a geek at my school but idc
As a Quebecer (and therefore a French-Canadian), I laughed out loud, happy to see that our neighbors know so much about the world around them! (On a more serious note, include geography classes in your educational program, a 10-year-old Canadian knows his geography much better than any of the Americans in this video).
To be fair about not knowing where Ukraine is, a lot of my geography knowledge is based on staring at the maps in classrooms. When I graduated in 2013 it still wasn't uncommon to see pre-1991 maps that they never bothered to replace.
this is why united states are bad in geograph and not fair you guys are so low level
Well yeah, but i mean they/you were never curious about the new war in there since it started up in early 2022?
This is really sad tbh
While watching this I had a several mental breakdowns.
Lol here in India we have a single chapter (at least 20-40 pages) dedicated to a single continent in class 5( age 9)we had maps which were hard. Questions were like this: Point out the concentration of red soil in the continent of Africa 😂 lol those were some days
Yes those were the days, as if the Indian history, which has a gazillion empires and periods, and Indian geography aren't enough, I had to learn the geography of France and Nigeria lol.
Reletable for an Italian although we did it later, we had ( around the age of 12-14) to point out the capitals the lakes and rivers of the various continents and then describing the various geographic differences and the which sectors would have been more advantaged and disadvantaged in such territory ( for example in the Jungle Exotic fruits may be grown more easily while anything regarding the Tertiary sector won’t just have the infrastructure to be supported) while a plain area near a river will be more useful for Industries such as ( we also had to make examples) the Solvay.
@@Boretheory this seems like our syllabus lol, although we had all this thing in just one chapter in class 8. Yeah I know, tragic..
@@Harshiahaha😂
@@Harshiahaha To be fair, I had to learn a bit of Indian geography (topography and density of population, that kind of stuff). Thanks to god and a limited amount of time, I didn't had to study Indian history.
When I was in grade school in the United States, in the 1960's and 70's, we did learn Geography as a discrete subject. Every year from 4th to 8th grade we covered about 1 continent each. We learned the names of countries and their capitals, the major mountain ranges, rivers, lakes, and other geographical features, the climates that could be found there, major agricultural products, and of course we learned to read maps. I don't know why or when we stopped doing that. Of course countries have changed drastically since then.
Is it because a poorly educated electorate either doesn't vote, or have the skills to consider who they vote for?
Bro says I need a pass when I know every country and I'm having a mental breakdown watching this
Always want to see this kind of game where a person point new caledonia when asked to point out where french is.
well in a way that wouldn't be wrong lol
It would be better if the answer is point on french Guyana
French antarctic islands :)
Amazing cat pfp
Antartique*, sorry. . .
Growing up, I had a shower curtain that had the countries of the world on it. I had a Current events class that had map quizzes, I would study while showering 😂. I got perfect scores the whole time, I'm pretty proud of that.
I don’t even know how my siblings and I know some geography and some flags. We’ve pretty much never been taught it in school but somehow all of us can identify more countries and flags correctly than our friends
@@dylanfield7098I know many of those countries because of playing fifa too much.
I memorized the player's country names
But did the shower curtain include New Zealand?
@@Gohkar/ShowerCurtainsWithoutNewZealand 😢😢
@@the-bz3zt Yes video games are actually a good way to learn some things. When i was younger i played a lot of minecraft and back then it was only available in english. So I automatically learned a lot of vocabulary
8:13 my fav drew laugh ever
9:15 did anyone notice they coloured in Tanzania for Kenya when they said Kenya?
Bro I'm a US American and they taught us basic geography at my elementary and middle schools...idk what happened for these guys.
They are the divided states americans
That pfp clearly shows what happened
Well that girl that said there's no countries in africa was clearly confusing it with australia, that's the only explanation i've got. ^^
Correct but all of this wasn't covered in school
I'm not taught geography by a teacher, I teach geography to a teacher
I’ll never forget the first day of senior year of high school in aquatic science. The teacher gave us a world map to name all the oceans. I kid y’all not literally one other person and I in the class were able to name them correctly. Some people couldn’t even name more than three. I was baffled🤣
Never heard of an aquatic science class in high school
@@Lybrelit was more of an elective. I needed to get more elective credits for graduation.
I don’t know any oceans except the atlantic, pacific and indian ocean if its even called that, yeah oceans arent my speciality
@@Tied112only missing the Arctic Ocean and the Southern Ocean!
Well there are only three undisputed ones. The Arctic ocean isn't always considered one, I think the Southern/Antarctic ocean is generally recognized as one but a compelling case can be made against it, and the Caspian may or may not count as Ocean depending on who you ask.
5:11 Ngl I wouldn’t mind our culture is already pretty Americanized
As someone who is under 12th grade PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD LET ME BE ON ONE OF THESE PUBLIC MEDIA INTERVIEWS! I’m only worried about them scrambling the clips to make me look dumb
As an American that can name most of the countries in Europe, and a big chunk of Asia I am saddened by the fact that a large number of Americans can’t point out we’re America is on a map. 😢
Same
I'm 99% sure every one of these 'Muricans *dumb!* ' videos or what have you are entirely scripted. No one from this country could fail to identify the United States on a map, not unless that person is blind. I doubt anyone from this country would fail to identify Canada, Mexico, France or the UK, average people might not readily know all of the rest.
@Iosinyhrh Haha great response to someone who couldn't get past the fourth word before making one of many mistakes. There should be a browser extension to auto-hide comments with "by the fact".
Or spell 'where'.
@@Lybrel ESL bro? In this context, "Person + 'Made X' + 'by the fact that' + '...'" is a perfectly acceptable construction; it's just about the most uncontroversial thing I've seen someone take issue with. If you're going to insult someone, at least know the subject of contention well enough to do so. English isn't as rigid as you think: you can get away with a lot of things uneducated people will mistakenly call "incorrect".
Drew hopelessly triggering himself by watching his fellow countrymen try out some geography for a video already made my day
1:11 As an Indian, I can confirm that we invented the pizza, pasta and spaghetti. Julius Ceaser was definitely born in Pataliputra (present day Patna) in 369BC and yes we switched sides during WW2.
U mean u had a civilwar? No switching sides considering the Italo-Indian kindom surrendered
@@Boretheory but one month after the surrender, it did join the war against its former ally, so it did kind-of switch sides. Also, they had switched sides during WW1, so there's that. :-)
Only idiots don't switch their opinion when circumstances change.
And you Indians aren't stupid. 😊
@@irrelevant_noob nono
They didn’t as in WWII the new government was formed by CCP and Partisans which fought by allies side from the start, the fascist regime continued to fight with the German with the republic of Salo
In WWI even less as Italy left the alliance because Austria infringed point 4 and 7 in which it couldn’t start a war in the balcans. They tried to convince Italy but it preferred to leave the alliance. It joined the war but a year later
10:19
“I didn’t go to school.”
“Yeah, I know you didn’t.”
Tell me you’re dumb without saying you’re dumb.
I am a ten year old and have known this since age 4-8
Me:
-6 grade
-get 100% in a europe geoguessr
-Canadian
-watch drew durnil
7:30 NO WE DONT NEED A PASS
Same Me: 6th grade
Name every country that ever existed from 1936-2024
American
Also watches drew durnil
4th grader me that knows geography: BRUH
@@Freedommapping15 xd
u cant just get a 100% on any geoguesser u aint rainbolt
I am in 9th grade and i feel ashamed by how little other Americans know about geography
Same, like SO many people have me legitimately concerned
@@TheDJdesingerI’m not sure,but the videos might be faked
@@Belgianmapping1830quite a lot of them are
Because we don’t care lmao 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅
@@Nghiềnphimtq and it makes some pretty funny maps :,) -an autistic American who is good at geography
3:07 The funny thing is that Novaya Zemlya, much like Japan was also Nuked. Except it was the Tsar bomba.
That's what I was thinking 😂
I genuinely think that a big reason why the average Latinamerican and European kid might be better at least at recognizing countries’ flags than the average American kid is thanks to football (soccer). This is by far the biggest sport in the world that has healthy international competition year round. As a kid I learned about the then very new country of Croatia and their flag thanks to them making it into the France 98 World Cup and surprising everyone by making it to the semifinals. Before that tournament I had never ever heard the name of that country!
Most Americans are interested in sports that for the most part feature teams from the US only (maybe a couple from Canada) and I think that has a lot to do.
6:57 She read 1984 😂
Which is basically an alternate history novel. That was dumbass not to distinguish between real and altered
I never understood the excuse “I wasn’t taught geography in school so why should I know”
You hear names of countries in the media and out and about in conversations. How do you not have the curiosity to see where that is? At the very least the continent or that Africa is not a country. You don’t even need to actively learn that to know that …
To answer your question, being braindead helps a lot😅
Drew's point on geography was very true. Just knowing where countries are can tell you alot about how they relate to one another
5:10 as an dutch person i can confirm we will drown ourselves if we became american
*slides away in American of Dutch descent*
Please don’t… America.
COUNTRY OF STARS is wild!
9:15
American: Kenya!
*Proceeds to label Tanzania as Kenya*
I’m in constant pain until schools teach more geography maps.
whenever someone in the streets asks me to name a country I can name them correctly, thank you drew for making my geography good.
these sort of videos (the one you're reacting to) have a very very high chance of just cutting off all the right answers, because making people look dumb is generaly more entertaining.
I would be very interested in seeing one, that is completely unedited so we can get a real idea of what people do or do not know.
Don't know how today's geography lessons in Sweden are, but I went to middle school in the 1960s, we had "blind maps". I loved it.
Blind map = only boundaries are drawn. On some also cities, lakes and rivers, but no names. It was educational!
Too bad kids in the US don't get the chance to learn it.
As an American highschooler, I can name plenty of countries and locate a few. I'm better at naming them
That’s surprising for an american. I knew the world map when I was 10 years old.
When someone says "they didn't teach me this in school," 9 times out of 10 they should be saying "I didn't pay attention in school"
Fr
Maybe, but Americans have horrible education and they don’t learn geography so they have a point.
Pause the video on 9:41. Chad on the left and Drew on the right are identical silhouettes.
It's crazy to think that so many people have literally been spinning on some giant space rock for years and never wanted to be like "oh, where tf am I?" Like, don't you want to know where you are in relation to everything else on this planet!?
No don’t care I have better things to worry about
To be fair if you can tell where your country are and maybe some of your neighbors it's good enough. Like I won't know which Africa or ME country is which either.
Also I forgot to mention this was a joke
I'm having a heartburn by laughing, I just can't. 😂
You guys love Anime but you put my country everywhere. 😂
I'm 13 and 7:17 really is weird because I don't want a pass I know almost every country without even trying lol
As Indian seeing my country map this long making me scared 😅❤️
This Geopraphy things we studying since 1st grade to 10th grade
and I was like: are you ok my human people out there
4:44 Me still saying FRANCE after drew just explained that it's a vertical flag 😅
11:08 I think me and Drew were living in different timelines if Africa didn't have borders in 2022.
What makes me always sad is not that people are bad at geography (many even feel bad about it). What is terrible is that people usually are proud, they are bad at math.
1:14 hello from Italia in Asia❤😂
now I want to have a new channel by drew asking people on the streets and the money goes directly into his medical bill because he is going to get insane after 2 minutes
YES PLS MAKE THIS
5:52 Can't help but notice he spelled Czechoslovakia wrong
7:19 in which continent is Europe
Trick question
this made me loose all hope in humanity, this made me cry
Hope is only lost in the US
loose 💀
Drew was in pain watching this video. 😂
It’s not just the USA for bad geography classes.I live in Canada and took a geography course, the first 2 lessons were on where things are and the rest were on “ how to harass fast food employees to make less waste” or sweat shops. I learn more from this channel then the 4 month I was in that class makes you think eh
haha you said eh
It’s a fun word to say eh
Yeah, in Canada you basically do colouring sheets (I think that’s what they’re called) until high school and you’ll learn about provinces and territories. That’s basically all of Canadian geography class.
I took geography test about the world in 2nd grade. Idk what school drew was going to
Isn't Canada a state of America though?
my brain hurts...
(also im a 10th grade student btw 7:42 )
X2
As an Indian I'm proud to be an Italian 😅
0:25 She said Thailand with an accent😭😭
9:14 He incorrectly labels Tanzania as Kenya.
Edit: typo
6:23 "what city is the Eiffel tower in ?"
"London"
Me a French 😩😩😩
Me a Brit : 😈😈😈😈😈 we have stolen your artefact
@@NatashaWardenMe as a american: 🍿
3:39 actually Myanmar is slightly more authoritarian than North Korea 😶
no it's just less democratic
Honestly some of these people might be panicking because of the camera
1:57 in the UK I had geography tests, but they were nothing to do with country flags and locations, that was what we were expected to learn ourselves, we did do Kahoots and class quizzes for fun lessons though about flags and country shapes
9:34 thats not fair she was from the country of Africa
There are only 2 geography experts in the US: Drew's clone, and the VA of Yakko Warner (Rob Paulsen).
Hey I’m an American and I can point out any country on a map
@@Creativious-Cool Are you the real Drew?
I’m in high school and I got almost all of them right. Great video Drew!
5:37 bro whatd they do to my boy Czechoslovakia 😢
When I was under 10 I still knew Europe was in Eurasia
I wonder if Geography is taught differently at different places and times,
Like I learned about basic geography in elementary and middle school,
And had a whole 2 classes dedicated to Geography and Geopolitics in High School, and I was in a pretty bum school honestly, it wasn't that well funded but we still had like a Geography, Health, Economics, Federal/State Law and Statistics class in High School so I just don't know people don't know some basic stuff.
It is. Different countries and districts have different curriculums. As far as I know, Teachers decide how to teach their students and if they pass there regional test then they can move up grades.
I'm too curious to know how was this Geopolitics class you had in High School. Do you mind telling me what did they teach you more concretly in that class?
We didn’t have much education in the form of „which countries are where?“ but more about Passat winds, minerals, economical and ecological considerations. We were supposed to learn the locations on our own and turned out fine.
Some anecdata:
I went to extremely well-regarded and well-funded public schools in Chicagoland. We had very limited geography in 7th grade Social Studies and that's it. That was 1986-87, for me. We covered US states and capitals. Same with European countries and their capitals. For the rest of the world, we had a single quiz that required labeling 10 or 12 countries/capitals. That was about it.
In high school, all I had was AP US and European History classes. At a highfalutin university, I took a bunch of history classes for fun, but they didn't even offer geography classes, not that I would have taken one.
However, I picked up a lot of geography on my own via learning about history. That, plus watching Olympics and being generally curious, was sufficient for me to be able to list about 175 countries when I tried during my late-30s. That was impetus to get me to fill in the gaps, which were mostly not knowing which islands were sovereign nations vs territories. Now I can list all countries and maybe 90% of the capitals without any problem....a little more problem if it involves spelling the capitals of Brunei, South Ossetia, etc..
My point is almost all of that was self-motivated away from schools. Someone could have easily gone through the same schools I did without know much of anything about geography beyond where some white people live and are from.
Some USians do have more robust, formal geography instruction in school, but it varies greatly.
Diff countries and regions or even sometimes states do have diff curriculum but they all usually do include common basic knowledge. Not sure if they bunked class or teachers forgot to teach them.
I did this in my college dorm last year. The history and politics science majors were the best (duh). Some business majors did pretty well, but most weren’t great. The fashion majors did the worst
Kenya in Tanzania 9:07
Drew im glad that you reacted to one of the vids that i had wacthed
BRO. I GOT TWO STAGE 4 TUMORS IN MY BRAIN AFTER THIS.
What if we ask the British to name countries around the world, and then we compare their map to the Americans’ map?
That is already a thing, go check it out. It's even funnier.
Better ask to name the states within the USA because we only know a few. Usually the USA is shown as a big monolithic block on our European maps.
yep acording to people from berlin pablo escobar is mexican and india is in africa
i guess some of our people here in europe got infected with the illness called s.t.u.p.i.d wich came from america
@@gambri1980 it is a country after all wich is why its not being shown with its states borders because its a world map if you look at a national map of the usa you will see them
You do make a good point.
Erdkunde (geography) is 5th grade up in germany , Heimat-/Sachkunde (Geography of Germany)= 1st to 4th grade
So in the First 4 years we learn everything about our own state and country and then from 5th grade we leave Germany to learn about the World, starting with Europe.
Plus in 5th Grade history starts and is intertwined.
When i was 15 (31 years ago i even was able to Show most of the 50 states on a map , your states that is)
1:27 India on a diet
At 12 I knew all countries in Europe and their capitals, so this is funny as hell to me
1:57
As someone who is currently in the American public school system, they now teach us about geography (we start learning about it in fifth grade) so yes, they’re some making progress 😄
They were teaching geography 30 years. It's just that not everyone paid attention.
Proud to be African 🇰🇭
Wrong flag bro it's 🇭🇷
No, it's 🇭🇹
Might aswell use 🇦🇶
11:14 our dictator wanted to do this but 2011 happened
Oh your from Libya?
@@ducknotfound yeah bro, I'm from Libya, its been nice here for years now
I definitely think we need to seriously teach people geography starting at a more elementary level.
That "I knew you didn't" lmao what a scud
Some random strangers asked name 10 asian countrys
Me this is what my life training has lead to
5:42 No we can't
5:05 there is this dude that had a program on dutch television, where the premise was that he wanted the Netherlands to become the 51 state of america so that in retrospect, he was born in amurica and could run for president, this was around the Obama era 😂 he toured amurica with a big bus with Van Rossum for president! With his head and amurican flag on it and all 😂 🇺🇸🇺🇸 he said, the more i went down south the more people liked the idea and didnt mind a foreign president because their president already came from Nigeria 💀