After getting sued couple of times by the parents of dumb*ss kids who not only failed to answer the question, but also complained that teacher broke his morale, teachers have adopted the encouragement tactics: a kid will be praised for his confidence/activity/anything even if the answer was wrong. Now they grew up.
bit further back than that, laddy. try about 800 years ago. brits were fighting germans alongside france a hundred years ago. little dustup called the great war, latterly referred to as world war 1. p'raps you've heard of it?
It's hilarious how poms hang on to that given that was actually many hundreds of years ago, not 100. It's 106 years since WW1 ended. It wasn't England that was trying to annexe France at the time!
Side note I was laughing, my mother asked why I told her 2 20 something American girls think Asia is the smallest country! My 7 year old niece butted in and said that’s not a country it’s a continent! 7 years old 😂
not only continent but (by sheer location of India and China) also most populated. those 2 countries combined dwarf any other continent in population :)
It's also by far the biggest continent in terms of population and size and it's not even close. So they managed to be as wrong as one could possibly be. x)
On Asia you think that it's a separate continent? Eurasia (/jʊəˈreɪʒə/ yoor-AY-zhə, also UK: /-ʃə/ -shə) is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia.[3][4] According to some geographers, physiographically, Eurasia is a single supercontinent.[4] That's what european part thinks )))
I can’t understand how one’s life would be so impoverished by not having images of all these different countries in your mind . I simply can’t imagine not having images of all my neighbouring European countries and their languages in my mind. 😮
I was not much better than those people answering when I was younger, I just simply didn't care about geopgraphy. I'm still not the best, but I can probably point out correctly around 90 countries on the map, I mostly struggle with Africa and all those smaller Island nations. However when it comes to flags... I'm quite bad at it honestly.
@ I’m 70 But I was taught a lot of it while I was still at primary school about 10 or 11. Plus all the flags. I have forgotten lots of the flags but absorbed even more geography.
It's even more frustrating when you consider that all these people have a smartphone with google maps on it which they probably also use on a regular base. And in all these years, they didn't bother zooming out, just out of curiosity, just a single fukin time. This is the purest form of ignorance really. The knowledge is infront of your face and you don't even bother looking at it.
Somewhere there is a small part of this answer that is not entirely wrong since Brazil has a border with French Guiana and since France is in Europe.... With a lot of kindness we can accept, right?
Right?? When I was like 11, my math teacher used to say, that if she wakes us up in the middle of the night and asks, how much, for example, 16x16 is, we have to answer in seconds, if not, there's a problem 😂
When the guy said Southern Indiana, Ryan got a crestfallen look on his face. This video broke him! Courage Ryan, I'm sure some day your kid will answer all these questions and redeem America!
@@triarb5790 Eh, South Korea, Japan etc, those have pretty strict social rules that are pretty damn restrictive. South Korea especially can be hell for individual freedom. But the US definitely is super low on the list and they definitely don't even understand what freedom means. It's just a buzzword for them now.
Luxembourg isn't even in the top 25 of smallest countries... so even if for some weird reason you didn't count the vatican as a country, you'd still be way off. In Europe alone there are 6 countries smaller than luxembourg...
I understand though, because it's the smallest that you can actually see on a map, the smallers are just invisible on a map of Europe. Small island nations at least have some space between them
Yeah, but this is an interesting one. Because some people dispute whether microstates are countries as they often don't meet all the criteria. The Vatican for instance does not have a self-sustaining population. Monaco has one but they are a french protectorate, so no full sovereignty. Luxembourg is the smallest country with EU - membership. However... My money is on Malta. Malta has in the past withdrawn its EU-membership application. But because they are country-like enough to be eligible I'll say Malta is the smallest proper country in Europe.
Yup, and then you realise all her answers to that question...Asia, Alaska, Antarctica and Australia; all start with an 'A'. Was she running through the alphabet with anything that came to mind starting with A, or does she think that country names are arranged alphabetically due to size?
I blame most of their answers on Hollywood, though - those really famous movie makers at 21st Century Fox. That´s always the first thing on my mind at least, and I suspect some of it might have bled through to the young ones.
admits she doesn't know where brazil is located, then repeats she doesn't know repeatedly rather than hear the answer and learn. ground control, we have a problem ...
Last century when I was in school, we learned our multiplication tables completely by year 3, ie 8 years old. They’re locked in my brain forever and I access them daily. We had no pocket calculators back then, they just didn’t exist. Mental Arithmetic was our calculator. “In the course of the 1970s, handheld electronic calculators transformed the way tens of millions of people did arithmetic. Engineers abandoned slide rules and business people gave up desktop calculating machines.”
Me 2 - I learned all the small scales at least by 3rd grade. Then I worked as a farmer for a lot of years, and got used to doing all of these calculations in my head, like: How much seed should I have used on this area that I´ve just done? I constantly needed to check this to notice if I had done anything wrong.
Its similar issue to navis and other helper electronics. Instead of being used as assistance they are held as infailable gospel. The amount of times ive seen someone use a calculator and get out a wrong answer because of mistyping. And they dont even notice because there is no "is this answer even in the right ballpark?" going on. A while ago i got praised for my headcalc because i could guess that 39 times 45 is just under 1800...
@@zilvertron How is it any different from "howdy"? That's just the short form of saying "how do you do?" It's just another way of asking them how they are.
@Lazmanarus you could say whatever you prefer, but Bonjour does NOT mean Alright, and saying Alright to people as a way of saying hello is very weird indeed
In the PISA studies for maths, science and reading literacy, the USA is no worse than the other western democracies. These tests do not exist for geography.
@@Michael_from_EU_Germany I mean... Some Western countries do far better than others, and the US is pretty consistently near the bottom of the barrel.
@@to_loww Nope, they outlawed jaywalking because Americans can't be trusted not to mow down pedestrians, but in typically American fashion, the victims became the ones to catch the blame.
They learned for the test and memorized only the flags, that's probably why since both France and Great Britain share the same colors. Probably the mentality of why bother when I can buy a map when I need it
My friend, the question about Mona Lisa was not an Art History quiz. An Art History question would have been "When was Mona Lisa painted?" or "What artistic current does Mona Lisa belong to?" "What famous technique was used in painting Mona Lisa". We are talking about the most famous painting in the world, which almost everyone who goes to Paris takes a picture with. Its general culture/ general knowledge, don`t try to make it a niche question, because its not. Too bad you took so many college classes in art and still you are unable to make a difference between general art knowledge and art history as a superfluous information.
Not entirely true. Portugal and Spain were together in a "One King, Two Kingdoms" arrangement under King Filip II of Spain from 1580. But for all intents and purposes, yes you're right.
Can you imagine how I, born, bred, and living, in the UK feel, when they all think that OUR capital city is actually in France, our historical rival? BTW, London is the capital of England, but it is also the capital of the UK.
@@marikothecheetah9342 - Uhh, why would London be any different ... *_"FOR THEM"_* ?! When asked to name three *_countries_* , they answer with two continents and Alaska 🤦♂️ ! _(Yes I know it's not all of them. I'm talking about those who are usually retained to appear in these clips😑)_
@beldin2987 Once a guy was asking questions to young Portuguese people (I am Portuguese), and they didn't know what our capital city was. It was scary!
@@CornedBee They simply don't know the difference between country and continent. But no wonder when they live in tha country that most of the times is named after the continent it is on and they are also called "americans" instead of "USAsians" or "statians" or whatever. I mean, try to explain a Donald Trump that "mexicans" are also "americans".
For somebody born decades later, why does somebody need to memorize the EXACT dates? There's lessons to be learned in history, but the exact numbers aren't really the important part. That's just trivia knowledge for the sake of it at that point, other than getting the general time and order of events. It's like saying somebody's dumb because they aren't good at doing math in their head, when we all carry around calculators (like some of the teachers said we wouldn't, but here we are)
I once asked my son (maybe 10 by then) . He didn't know what a dozen was. But it isn't used in germany anymore. Eggs are sold in 6 or 10 packages. When I was a child it was more common to use 12/dozen.
Even if one doesn’t consider Vatican City a country in its own right, countries like Andorra, Malta, Liechtenstein, and San Marino are all smaller than Luxembourg. That said, the Vatican is indeed a recognized country, as this status is based on international recognition, primarily by entities like the UN, rather than individual opinions.
Of course Vatican is a subject of public international law, just like other states,capable of being party of international treaties, of diplomatic and consular relations and of other rights and obligations under international law.
Oh my god the guy who said France on the question about smallest country xD France is the third biggest country in Europe by land aarea, only beat by Ukraine and Russia
@@to_loww My comment was only reffering to an another one, of another person (I don't see it anymore), that was saying that Russia is not an European country (so geographically, as I've mentioned above, 25% of its territory is in Europe).
The Vatican is a few building and a park inside Rome, Luxembourg got several cities, countryside.... it cannot be the smallest one. you could maybe think about Monaco, San Marino, or Singapour, But not Luxembourg !
@@triarb5790 yes but it's not a Eurocentric P.O.V., it was on purpose : they are far away, literally, and from my point of vue, they aren't small : an archipelago of many islands added can give larger surfaces than a city-state, or more than a building-state as the Vatican. Even Nauru, with 21 km2, is larger than Monaco (2 km2) and Vatican. The next one, the archipelago of Tuvalu, is larger (26 km2).
@101steel4 Ouch! I confess, while I travelled quite a bit around the world since I was a child, I'm not very good at calling all the countries by name ... but at least I know where to search for them on a map. I have to speak slowly (to get it correct), when I want to sort the Capital Cities from Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finnland (they somehow pair up different to me as it should be - lol) So yes, Geography is not my strongest subject, but never having a lesson? Anyway, just for fun and giggles, I have 2 questions to the European reader about my birth country the Netherlands (those were my deflecting questions in Geography and Capital Cities.). Answers will be below. 1) What is the Capital City of the Netherlands? 2) What is the difference between s'Gravenhage and Den Haag? Take care, learn something new every day 🧑🏻🎓- Europe 🌷 1) The Capital City is Amsterdam. 2) There isn't a difference. s'Gravenhage is still used in official documents, Den Haag is the local/slang version, that has itself established over time. Btw s'Gravenhage also is also the government city. Similair as - before the unification and short time after - Berlin was the Capital City and Bonn was the government city in Germany.
@@dasdp3200 Vatican is INSIDE the city of Rome, now guess the size of that country. :) "city state" is already an overstatement, but it counts as independent souvereign country.
German here. I have a friend who lived in the US for quite a while. She said the Americans are dumb and to be dumb is not a reason to be ashamed for them.
As an Australian, I love watching these types of videos pointing out the lack of education some Americans have. To their defence though, it seems they are at some kind of music festival and probably all on drugs. I’m not sure they know their own names at this point. 😂😂😂😂
16:25 the thing is.. this question isnt really about “Art History”.. its such a famous painting, mentioned and referenced so many times in so many different medias, that its become common knowledge that Da Vinci painted it 😭
The question "where you at?" annoys me so much. Every time I hear it, I picture my English teachers spinning in their graves. Not to mention the verb..conversate......oh heavens.
If you want to be technical about it London is the Capital of the United Kingdom as a Capital city is determined where the government of a country sits and as the government that sits in the Houses of Parliament is the UK Government as there is no separate government for England like there is for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland so technically England has no capital city but the capital of the UK is London which is in England
1. In some countries, there is a separation between the capital and the seat of government, such as in the Netherlands, where Amsterdam is the capital and the seat of government is in The Hague. 2. In some states there is no capital.
Not that chocking they didn't knew Venice, but I was suprised about Brazil. It's is one of the most famous country when I grew up because of their worldclass Football players, but I guess its different in the US since they dont watch that sport to much so for them Brazil is just another country as any.
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Are you really saying knowing current century is the 21st is a hard question for US people? I cannot believe it.
Dear Ryan, even if the Vatican City would not be the smallest country, there are like 20-30 countries smaller than Luxemburg: Monaco, Nauru, Tuvalu, San Marino, Liechtenstein, Marshall Islands, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Maldives, Malta, Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Seychelles, Palau, Andorra, Saint Lucia, Micronesia, Singapore, Tonga, Dominica, Bahrain, Kiribati, São Tomé and Principe, Mauritius and finally Comoros… Even if you exclude all the island nations for some reason, it would still rank only 8th.
"Brazil is located on the edge of Europe" TECHNICALLY he may be right in a political sense. Brazil share a border with the French oversea region of Guyane (where the Kourou space center, Europe's Launch pad, is located), and French Guyana is part of the European Union. So, politically, Brazil shares a land border with the European Union. Side note, this border is also the longest land border in France. And, see, Ryan, this is one reason why many Europeans knows about geography : because many European countries have messed up the whole world's geography and it has left marks everywhere. (and that include inside Europe as well, of course)
Monaco and Andorra are states parts of France, and San Marino is state part of Italy, none of them are countries ! England either, part of the UK. Nauru will be the next after Vatican, i believe 😉🖖
So if somebody says something happened and you didn't see it, you just assume every single person at all times is never lying and never makes a mistake?
@@sylviaschaich If somebody says they don't believe it, they mean they don't believe it's true. Anyone can make something up and call it a fact, that doesn't mean it's actually true. Also, aside from that, stories can be "true stories" or fictional.
You are wrong man, the French walked first on the moon, Jules Verne wrote a famous book about it! But the first man in space was an American, his name was Commander James T. Kirk.
@@hermannschaefer4777 When he FIRST went to space, he was an ensign (as is just about every Starfleet officer), he had worked his way up the ranks to captain when we first met him in the 2nd pilot episode.
Guess what?! i am wearing a sweater same as yours, Ryan, just right now. same colour and same cut and design. i live in Beirut Lebanon. That's something you should react to it :)
also i love how hes nearly having a heart attack at 8:27, maybe this stuff isnt good for your heart ryan, its not worth the money man, put your health first
Especially because he will lose more money when he actually gets a heart attack than he got with all his videos. *laughs in european because of healthcare*
Lance? To young ... From the age fits: Louis Armstrong ... ... I can still hear him on the moon playing: “Moonlight Serenade” and “Moon River” ... wonderful! General knowledge.
@@FortunateXpat It wouldn't surprise me if it were Stretch Armstrong, on a side note a couple of friends about 10 years ago managed to stretch one until it snapped (supposedly not possible said the makers) bloody well is says me and the people at the party, could have taken someones eye out said all in jest, but it actually could have, went with a dull twang and quite a bit of force too.
10:48 Here, the written answer isn't right either. England is a part of or a state in the country named United Kingdom. The UK is often wrongly named as being England. But this disrespects all the people of Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
England is a country, as are all of the other ones you mentioned. The UK is a federation of sorts and presents internationally as a single, unified entity, kind of like Voltron or the Megazord.
Some people do not jonw the difference between a country and a continent. Maybe it is because America can both refer to the United States and north anf Douth America as welll.
WWII ended 3 October 1990, when Germany became a state again. Up to then it didn't exist from the post war occupation period and through the Cold War (as it was 2 countries). As WW2 was declared on a single German state, it couldn't be technically over until West and East Germany became Germany again.
Communist Germany built the wall. Our Lady brought it down. That occurred because St Pope John Paul Ii did as Our Lady had requested and prayed with all the Bishops of the world, and the Wall came down!
I might get a lot of heat for that, but whener I watch videos about young püeople in germany and the nonsense they say and do I think we are done. But then I watch a video like this from the US and think: Well, I think it's not sooo bad in germany! 😂SORRY!!!!!
I'm French and teach History and Geography. I'm sending my thoughts and prayers to all of my colleagues across the Atlantic. May you have the strength to not quit on the spot after seeing this 😅
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The problem isn't, that they are stupid or not educated...it's the confidence they do it with, that's the most ignorant thing! 😂😂😂
@@foshizzlfizzl confidently incorrect😂
After getting sued couple of times by the parents of dumb*ss kids who not only failed to answer the question, but also complained that teacher broke his morale, teachers have adopted the encouragement tactics: a kid will be praised for his confidence/activity/anything even if the answer was wrong. Now they grew up.
it's easy to be confident when you don't know you shouldn't be. it's hard to be confident once you learn that you shouldn't be.
Guess some people are just so butt hurt because the average American don't give a rats arse for countries that over rate their importance
I stopped laughing about it in 2016.
"London is the capitol of France!"
Every Brit: We tried to make that happen some hundred years ago!
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bit further back than that, laddy. try about 800 years ago. brits were fighting germans alongside france a hundred years ago. little dustup called the great war, latterly referred to as world war 1. p'raps you've heard of it?
It's hilarious how poms hang on to that given that was actually many hundreds of years ago, not 100. It's 106 years since WW1 ended. It wasn't England that was trying to annexe France at the time!
Admit it: You're still tryin
Incredibly stupid
The problem with this world is that ignorant people are so confident and intelligent people are so full of doubt.
Wow 😮 how small are their lives. I’m so grateful for living on the continent of Europe. I feel very privileged..
If you asked 100 people, you would find 5 or 6 that did not know the answers. Even in Europe.
@@conda7774 find a grown adult who cant do basic math or has basic knowledge? sure go do the experiment yourself and see
@@conda7774 And they would be American tourists!
@Yesser-Thistle73 😂😂
It's not about studying art history or not. It's about common knowledge.
Americans always say, "God bless America," but the problem is that even God's blessing won't help them at all.
They sorely need his blessing!
This may actually proves that there is indeed no god
"It was Neil Armstrong."
"Well, she can't be American."
"But it was fake."
"Oh yeah, she's American."
It was fake. And I'm not American.
"Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others. The same applies when you are stupid."
Who said that?
@@sopcannon Someone did, I don't know who
Side note I was laughing, my mother asked why I told her 2 20 something American girls think Asia is the smallest country! My 7 year old niece butted in and said that’s not a country it’s a continent! 7 years old 😂
not only continent but (by sheer location of India and China) also most populated. those 2 countries combined dwarf any other continent in population :)
@ India overtaking china in population aren’t they?
It's also by far the biggest continent in terms of population and size and it's not even close. So they managed to be as wrong as one could possibly be. x)
@@rivenoak Yeah, more than 2 billion people over there, just between India and China...
On Asia you think that it's a separate continent?
Eurasia (/jʊəˈreɪʒə/ yoor-AY-zhə, also UK: /-ʃə/ -shə) is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia.[3][4] According to some geographers, physiographically, Eurasia is a single supercontinent.[4]
That's what european part thinks )))
I can’t understand how one’s life would be so impoverished by not having images of all these different countries in your mind . I simply can’t imagine not having images of all my neighbouring European countries and their languages in my mind.
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I was not much better than those people answering when I was younger, I just simply didn't care about geopgraphy. I'm still not the best, but I can probably point out correctly around 90 countries on the map, I mostly struggle with Africa and all those smaller Island nations. However when it comes to flags... I'm quite bad at it honestly.
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I’m 70 But I was taught a lot of it while I was still at primary school about 10 or 11. Plus all the flags. I have forgotten lots of the flags but absorbed even more geography.
It's even more frustrating when you consider that all these people have a smartphone with google maps on it which they probably also use on a regular base. And in all these years, they didn't bother zooming out, just out of curiosity, just a single fukin time. This is the purest form of ignorance really. The knowledge is infront of your face and you don't even bother looking at it.
@ exactly. In this day and age, ignorance really is a choice.
My geography of the Pacific is pretty damn good. 😊🇦🇺
When the guy answered that Brazil is on the edge of Europe, it should have been followed by "Where's Europe?"
No I got a better one: "Why is Europe"??
@@Lord-of-Gaming-007 Why? Because otherwise, North America would still be inhabited by the Indians. Any more stupid questions?
Somewhere there is a small part of this answer that is not entirely wrong since Brazil has a border with French Guiana and since France is in Europe.... With a lot of kindness we can accept, right?
@@Lord-of-Gaming-007well basically you would be screwed without Europe.
I'm feeling very generous here. Portugal is on the edge of Europe and in Brasil they speak Portuguese. :)
It's the lack of basic maths that blows my mind. I knew all my multiplication tables by the time I was about 8 or 9 years old.
well I'm Italian and I'm dyscalculic...
I was 7 when I learned the whole multiplication table
I think I'd had them drummed into me even earlier. Reciting the "times tables" was a daily ritual.
Right?? When I was like 11, my math teacher used to say, that if she wakes us up in the middle of the night and asks, how much, for example, 16x16 is, we have to answer in seconds, if not, there's a problem 😂
@annaluskova6129 it is actually easy, when you know the pattern. 11*11=121, 12*12=144, 13*13=169....
When the guy said Southern Indiana, Ryan got a crestfallen look on his face. This video broke him! Courage Ryan, I'm sure some day your kid will answer all these questions and redeem America!
That look immediately told me that Ryan went to USI. 🤣🤣
In the past it was called a knowledge gap, today it's called a wireless hole, pull out their SIM card and they're unconscious.
If isn’t about America, how great America is or how it’s the land of the free it doesn’t exist, therefore it’s not taught!
Pretty much.
Even though they are the least free people of any developed nation. 😂
@@triarb5790 Eh, South Korea, Japan etc, those have pretty strict social rules that are pretty damn restrictive.
South Korea especially can be hell for individual freedom.
But the US definitely is super low on the list and they definitely don't even understand what freedom means. It's just a buzzword for them now.
Luxembourg isn't even in the top 25 of smallest countries... so even if for some weird reason you didn't count the vatican as a country, you'd still be way off.
In Europe alone there are 6 countries smaller than luxembourg...
I understand though, because it's the smallest that you can actually see on a map, the smallers are just invisible on a map of Europe. Small island nations at least have some space between them
@@armelior4610So things don't count if one cannot see them? Please don't try to study chemistry, physics, or biology. 😅
Yeah, but this is an interesting one. Because some people dispute whether microstates are countries as they often don't meet all the criteria.
The Vatican for instance does not have a self-sustaining population. Monaco has one but they are a french protectorate, so no full sovereignty.
Luxembourg is the smallest country with EU - membership.
However... My money is on Malta. Malta has in the past withdrawn its EU-membership application. But because they are country-like enough to be eligible I'll say Malta is the smallest proper country in Europe.
@@jcxz983 if the UN recognise them as an independent country they are one...
Luxembourg IS a small country, and a much better answer than most in this video.
The guy who said "Micheal Angelo", on the question who painted the Mona Lisa, at least named an italian artist! 😆
Who lived during the same period though he was much younger than Da Vinci.
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Dude, Asia as the smallest country in the world KILLED ME 😂
Yup, and then you realise all her answers to that question...Asia, Alaska, Antarctica and Australia; all start with an 'A'. Was she running through the alphabet with anything that came to mind starting with A, or does she think that country names are arranged alphabetically due to size?
Brazil was part of the Portuguese empire not spanish
Thats why he said "something around it" since it was the spanish who gave the Portuguese "a bit of land"
@@Dominated001 🤦♀️
" - What century are we in? - Oh, I know this one, I saw it on tiktok"
That's the definition of GenZ, everyone
They are so screwed
If its not on TikTok, its not true 😂
Social media has managed to make GenZ the dumbest generation in human history and when it comes to dumb, Americans just do it better than anyone else.
don't do this to all of the gen Z .its just the american's.
I blame most of their answers on Hollywood, though - those really famous movie makers at 21st Century Fox. That´s always the first thing on my mind at least, and I suspect some of it might have bled through to the young ones.
"bad at geography" says one. These young people have absolutely no idea about geography
admits she doesn't know where brazil is located, then repeats she doesn't know repeatedly rather than hear the answer and learn.
ground control, we have a problem ...
This is why you elected Donald Trump as your new president. Well, almost new.
"He's second hand, but as good as new..." (or should I say as bad as new?)
Sounding just like a used cars seller
I have watched so many of these type of videos, that it must be true that the level of education is so low in the USA.
Canadian here, you should check out Rick Mercer talking to Americans. He is a Canadian Icon. You can’t go wrong❤️✌🏻🇨🇦
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Last century when I was in school, we learned our multiplication tables completely by year 3, ie 8 years old. They’re locked in my brain forever and I access them daily. We had no pocket calculators back then, they just didn’t exist. Mental Arithmetic was our calculator. “In the course of the 1970s, handheld electronic calculators transformed the way tens of millions of people did arithmetic. Engineers abandoned slide rules and business people gave up desktop calculating machines.”
Me 2 - I learned all the small scales at least by 3rd grade. Then I worked as a farmer for a lot of years, and got used to doing all of these calculations in my head, like: How much seed should I have used on this area that I´ve just done? I constantly needed to check this to notice if I had done anything wrong.
Its similar issue to navis and other helper electronics.
Instead of being used as assistance they are held as infailable gospel.
The amount of times ive seen someone use a calculator and get out a wrong answer because of mistyping.
And they dont even notice because there is no "is this answer even in the right ballpark?" going on.
A while ago i got praised for my headcalc because i could guess that 39 times 45 is just under 1800...
My 3rd grade was in the 80s, and it's the same in my brain, stored and unmovable ! 🖖
I live in London and i am just hearing i should be saying Bonjour instead of 'Alright?'😂😂😂😂😂😂
Weird way to say hello
@@zilvertron How is it any different from "howdy"?
That's just the short form of saying "how do you do?"
It's just another way of asking them how they are.
@Lazmanarus you could say whatever you prefer, but Bonjour does NOT mean Alright, and saying Alright to people as a way of saying hello is very weird indeed
@@zilvertron I'm saying that alright is the same as saying howdy, which is a fine old American greeting apparently.
I said nothing about bonjour.
@Lazmanarus and the world doesn't circulate around you, and my first comment weren't at you, so what's your point?
Ryan’s favourite videos.
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And our favourite videos are Ryan's too 😂❤
It superises me that these people even know their own names. Because they know very little else Americans can't even be trusted to cross the road.
In the PISA studies for maths, science and reading literacy, the USA is no worse than the other western democracies. These tests do not exist for geography.
@@Michael_from_EU_Germany I mean... Some Western countries do far better than others, and the US is pretty consistently near the bottom of the barrel.
That's why they outlawed jaywalking, I guess.
@@to_loww Nope, they outlawed jaywalking because Americans can't be trusted not to mow down pedestrians, but in typically American fashion, the victims became the ones to catch the blame.
In this day and age, many young people only know stuff, when it's about themselves. The "Selfie Culture" is upon us 😕
I'm so sorry for Ryan, seeing on his face how desperate he is about his fellows young Americans ...
One wonders how these people even learned the names of the countries they guess wrong.
They learned for the test and memorized only the flags, that's probably why since both France and Great Britain share the same colors. Probably the mentality of why bother when I can buy a map when I need it
i never had Art courses, but some knowledge are minimum general knowledge in Europe.
They don't care about Europe.
Funnily enough, we had reproductions in our history book, associated with a certain historical event - be it ballistically or culturally.
The way the question "Where is Brazil located?" Is very American. Other nations would just say "Where is Brazil?"
My friend, the question about Mona Lisa was not an Art History quiz. An Art History question would have been "When was Mona Lisa painted?" or "What artistic current does Mona Lisa belong to?" "What famous technique was used in painting Mona Lisa". We are talking about the most famous painting in the world, which almost everyone who goes to Paris takes a picture with. Its general culture/ general knowledge, don`t try to make it a niche question, because its not. Too bad you took so many college classes in art and still you are unable to make a difference between general art knowledge and art history as a superfluous information.
"Alaska.... Oh no, that is a cold one." "Antartica?" uhhhhhhhmmm no that is way warmer as Alaska !!! loooooooooooool
And they always forget to pronounce the first C in Antarctica.
Brazil was never part of the Spanish Empire, it was however under Portuguese rule.
Not entirely true. Portugal and Spain were together in a "One King, Two Kingdoms" arrangement under King Filip II of Spain from 1580. But for all intents and purposes, yes you're right.
Make American education great again lmao
MÆGA?
Can you imagine how I, born, bred, and living, in the UK feel, when they all think that OUR capital city is actually in France, our historical rival?
BTW, London is the capital of England, but it is also the capital of the UK.
Obviously, they have no idea of geography, let alone history.
Okay I get someone may not know where Prague is, Tbilisi or even Warsaw, but... London...? LONDON???
I kinda suspect this was a setup, when I saw people consistently answering France, tbh. ;D
@@marikothecheetah9342 - Uhh, why would London be any different ... *_"FOR THEM"_* ?!
When asked to name three *_countries_* , they answer with two continents and Alaska 🤦♂️ !
_(Yes I know it's not all of them. I'm talking about those who are usually retained to appear in these clips😑)_
@@Citoyen_du_Monde I don't know, one of the financial centers in the world, fashion city, historic city - you name it.
Omg... Are they interviewed at a weedsmoking festival?????😲😲😲😲
What about just saying: I don't know....humble for a change
NASA was in big trouble 'cause Kubrick in the beginning insisted in filming at the aktual locations... 😂
Ryan looks like his about to have a heart attack - more times than one😂
Getting the London question wrong is even the most stupid. Because there are two ways to correctly answer. England and the United Kingdom.
Learning the multiplication table is so useful, now every time someone asks me what 8x8 is I know the answer ! 😂❤
I bet it happens all the time! 😂
Make america great again😂 good luck with that 😅
9:00 - that's what happens when a generation is raised on social media 😂
That also happens if parents/babysitter put their/the kids at TV, Tablets, Cellphones most the time as a parenting-replacement.
Wow .. that girl with the smallest country, saying first Asia then Alaska, Australia .. that was hilarious 😂🤣
@beldin2987 Once a guy was asking questions to young Portuguese people (I am Portuguese), and they didn't know what our capital city was. It was scary!
@@loboclaud Yeah, for sure nobody on TikTok ever told them.
@@beldin2987 Probably not!
Pretty sure they misheard "country" as "continent" in that case. Still, one of them guessed Alaska even in this context.
@@CornedBee They simply don't know the difference between country and continent. But no wonder when they live in tha country that most of the times is named after the continent it is on and they are also called "americans" instead of "USAsians" or "statians" or whatever.
I mean, try to explain a Donald Trump that "mexicans" are also "americans".
What do you mean - ‘you’re not good at dates!’ Are you seriously saying you don’t know the dates of WW1 and WW2? RYAN!!!!! 1914-1918 and 1939-1945!!
Some Americans count WW2 as being from 1941-1945. And some historians designate WW1 as lasting into 1919 with ongoing fighting in Russia.
For somebody born decades later, why does somebody need to memorize the EXACT dates? There's lessons to be learned in history, but the exact numbers aren't really the important part. That's just trivia knowledge for the sake of it at that point, other than getting the general time and order of events. It's like saying somebody's dumb because they aren't good at doing math in their head, when we all carry around calculators (like some of the teachers said we wouldn't, but here we are)
@@TheZodiaczthey count it wrong then, just because americans didn't join before doesn’t mean that's when it started
more difficult would be Michael Collins, the poor guy orbited moon alone while waiting on Armstrong and Aldwin to return.
That's what he gets for selling out the Irish to the British...
@@Ayeshteni😂😂😂😂 but would they understand your answer?! Even those who say they're 'Irish'? 😂😂😂😂
Dozen, i guess, comes from french : "douzaine". Because in french twelve is "douze"
exactly ;-)
That’s it ! There is also demi-douzaine (6).
I once asked my son (maybe 10 by then) . He didn't know what a dozen was. But it isn't used in germany anymore. Eggs are sold in 6 or 10 packages. When I was a child it was more common to use 12/dozen.
Dozijn in Dutch
Not believing in the moon landing is also outlandish. Especially the Soviets would have had a field day debunking it.
5:07 No, it's not because the technology required to fake it didn't exist back then, the technology to go there did.
Even if one doesn’t consider Vatican City a country in its own right, countries like Andorra, Malta, Liechtenstein, and San Marino are all smaller than Luxembourg. That said, the Vatican is indeed a recognized country, as this status is based on international recognition, primarily by entities like the UN, rather than individual opinions.
You also didn't mention a whole lot of island countries. Luxembourg doesn't even break the top 20
@ totally true.
All those countries are *SMALLER* than Luxembourg. Check Wikipedia article "List_of_European_countries_by_area"
Of course Vatican is a subject of public international law, just like other states,capable of being party of international treaties, of diplomatic and consular relations and of other rights and obligations under international law.
Andorra and San Marino (and Monaco while i'm at it^^) are not countries, but states (principalties) as parts of France and Italy !
Oh my god the guy who said France on the question about smallest country xD France is the third biggest country in Europe by land aarea, only beat by Ukraine and Russia
Ruzzia isn't Europe...
@@stevemcgowenOnly part of Russia is in Europe - only 25% of its territory.
@@MayaTheDecemberGirl So? The European part of Russia alone accounts for around 38% of Europe's land area.
@@to_loww My comment was only reffering to an another one, of another person (I don't see it anymore), that was saying that Russia is not an European country (so geographically, as I've mentioned above, 25% of its territory is in Europe).
"London is the capital of which country?"
- "France?"
1400s-Brits: "Yes."
The Vatican is a few building and a park inside Rome, Luxembourg got several cities, countryside.... it cannot be the smallest one. you could maybe think about Monaco, San Marino, or Singapour, But not Luxembourg !
Funny how every Eurocentric human forgets all the minuscule sovereign nations in the Pacific Ocean.
@@triarb5790 yes but it's not a Eurocentric P.O.V., it was on purpose : they are far away, literally, and from my point of vue, they aren't small : an archipelago of many islands added can give larger surfaces than a city-state, or more than a building-state as the Vatican. Even Nauru, with 21 km2, is larger than Monaco (2 km2) and Vatican. The next one, the archipelago of Tuvalu, is larger (26 km2).
I wonder how geography is being taught in American schools.
Here are the 50 states, now learn all the presidents by heart.
Finnish here. Learned all 50 states like 7 years ago. Still easily could name at least 40 any moment. Not keen on your presidents
It isn't lol.
My cousin lived in Florida with his American wife. His 15 year old stepson had never had a geography lesson.
@101steel4 Ouch!
I confess, while I travelled quite a bit around the world since I was a child, I'm not very good at calling all the countries by name ... but at least I know where to search for them on a map.
I have to speak slowly (to get it correct), when I want to sort the Capital Cities from Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finnland (they somehow pair up different to me as it should be - lol)
So yes, Geography is not my strongest subject, but never having a lesson?
Anyway, just for fun and giggles, I have 2 questions to the European reader about my birth country the Netherlands (those were my deflecting questions in Geography and Capital Cities.). Answers will be below.
1) What is the Capital City of the Netherlands?
2) What is the difference between s'Gravenhage and Den Haag?
Take care, learn something new every day 🧑🏻🎓- Europe 🌷
1) The Capital City is Amsterdam.
2) There isn't a difference. s'Gravenhage is still used in official documents, Den Haag is the local/slang version, that has itself established over time. Btw s'Gravenhage also is also the government city. Similair as - before the unification and short time after - Berlin was the Capital City and Bonn was the government city in Germany.
2:03 Yes, for everything outside the USA is Europe
Swede here and weirdly enough, learned that Lichtenstein was the smallest country in school 😮
Learned later in life that it was the Vatican City.
Liechtenstein is actually the 6th smallest country.
Vatican is weird at least. :) less than 800 citizens and not much more inhabitants.
@@rivenoakwell its about being the smallest country so these number sounds like a flex 😊
@@dasdp3200 Vatican is INSIDE the city of Rome, now guess the size of that country. :)
"city state" is already an overstatement, but it counts as independent souvereign country.
San Marino and Monaco are smaller than Liechtenstein, but they are just towns with their surroundings.
German here. I have a friend who lived in the US for quite a while. She said the Americans are dumb and to be dumb is not a reason to be ashamed for them.
It's often worse so, lots of them aren't just not embarrassed by their stupidity, they're PROUDLY IGNORANT!
Germany is unraveling, focus on your own dumb people!
As an Australian, I love watching these types of videos pointing out the lack of education some Americans have. To their defence though, it seems they are at some kind of music festival and probably all on drugs. I’m not sure they know their own names at this point. 😂😂😂😂
16:25 the thing is.. this question isnt really about “Art History”.. its such a famous painting, mentioned and referenced so many times in so many different medias, that its become common knowledge that Da Vinci painted it 😭
The question "where is Venice located AT" Oh it's located AT Italy - really
The question "where you at?" annoys me so much. Every time I hear it, I picture my English teachers spinning in their graves. Not to mention the verb..conversate......oh heavens.
There are no stupid questions, there are only stupid answers... Sorry for my bad english
Boy, you've got some expressions flashing across your face on this one. Keep me smiling.
Michelangelo, Leonardo Di Vinci... both inspired a ninja turtle.
I liked the guy at the end with the self insight haha! 😂
If you want to be technical about it London is the Capital of the United Kingdom as a Capital city is determined where the government of a country sits and as the government that sits in the Houses of Parliament is the UK Government as there is no separate government for England like there is for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland so technically England has no capital city but the capital of the UK is London which is in England
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In some countries, there is a separation between the capital and the seat of government, such as in the Netherlands, where Amsterdam is the capital and the seat of government is in The Hague.
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In some states there is no capital.
Not that chocking they didn't knew Venice, but I was suprised about Brazil. It's is one of the most famous country when I grew up because of their worldclass Football players, but I guess its different in the US since they dont watch that sport to much so for them Brazil is just another country as any.
Are you really saying knowing current century is the 21st is a hard question for US people? I cannot believe it.
Dear Ryan, even if the Vatican City would not be the smallest country, there are like 20-30 countries smaller than Luxemburg: Monaco, Nauru, Tuvalu, San Marino, Liechtenstein, Marshall Islands, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Maldives, Malta, Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Seychelles, Palau, Andorra, Saint Lucia, Micronesia, Singapore, Tonga, Dominica, Bahrain, Kiribati, São Tomé and Principe, Mauritius and finally Comoros… Even if you exclude all the island nations for some reason, it would still rank only 8th.
"Brazil is located on the edge of Europe"
TECHNICALLY he may be right in a political sense. Brazil share a border with the French oversea region of Guyane (where the Kourou space center, Europe's Launch pad, is located), and French Guyana is part of the European Union.
So, politically, Brazil shares a land border with the European Union.
Side note, this border is also the longest land border in France.
And, see, Ryan, this is one reason why many Europeans knows about geography : because many European countries have messed up the whole world's geography and it has left marks everywhere. (and that include inside Europe as well, of course)
American public schools should put the american flag upside down.
If the Vatican were not considered to be a country, then the smallest country would be Monaco
Andorra small too.
San Marino....
@@daviderizzi73 Monaco is smaller.
@@gregorygant4242 👍
The Vatican is definitively not a country.
The Holy Seat is the sovereign subject (and not a country).
My guess about the smallest country,without watching the video, is either Vatican City or probably Monaco.
These videos make me feel so smart lol.
Monaco and Andorra are states parts of France, and San Marino is state part of Italy, none of them are countries ! England either, part of the UK.
Nauru will be the next after Vatican, i believe 😉🖖
@Mat-m1y but the Vatican City is a country
@@Michael-yq2ut yes, absolutely, it doesn't depend on any governement but its own !
@@Michael-yq2ut yes, absolutely, it doesn't depend on any governement but its own !
Can you imagine the total chaos in their head, not understanding anything around them, everyday?
5:38 i wasnt looking at the subtitles and i really heard venus
Facts are not something to believe in !
So if somebody says something happened and you didn't see it, you just assume every single person at all times is never lying and never makes a mistake?
@Aeroxima what ? Seems you don t know difference between facts and stories
@@sylviaschaich If somebody says they don't believe it, they mean they don't believe it's true. Anyone can make something up and call it a fact, that doesn't mean it's actually true.
Also, aside from that, stories can be "true stories" or fictional.
7:15 - You could say Luxembourg, and I could sort of agree with you, if it weren´t for at least 25 other countries being smaller... ;)
You are wrong man, the French walked first on the moon, Jules Verne wrote a famous book about it! But the first man in space was an American, his name was Commander James T. Kirk.
I thought it was Uri Geller 😉
@@Phiyedoughthat means that really it was a Palestinian but an Israel wiped their name from the record books.
James T. Kir's rank was captain not commander.
@@Lazmanarus He was Commander when he went to space, was later Admiral and back to Captain.
@@hermannschaefer4777 When he FIRST went to space, he was an ensign (as is just about every Starfleet officer), he had worked his way up the ranks to captain when we first met him in the 2nd pilot episode.
LMAO those 2 girls managed to break the stereotype that blondes are dumb, cause in this case, it was the brunette who was dropping deuces.
Guess what?! i am wearing a sweater same as yours, Ryan, just right now. same colour and same cut and design. i live in Beirut Lebanon. That's something you should react to it :)
also i love how hes nearly having a heart attack at 8:27, maybe this stuff isnt good for your heart ryan, its not worth the money man, put your health first
Especially because he will lose more money when he actually gets a heart attack than he got with all his videos. *laughs in european because of healthcare*
Yeah it was Lance Armstrong, well he was high enough so he possibly thought it was him.
Lance? To young ...
From the age fits: Louis Armstrong ...
... I can still hear him on the moon playing:
“Moonlight Serenade” and “Moon River” ... wonderful!
General knowledge.
Hopefully they didn't answer Neil Young, lol ! 🖖
I thought it was Louis Armstrong. 😂
@@Michael_from_EU_Germany😂
@@FortunateXpat It wouldn't surprise me if it were Stretch Armstrong, on a side note a couple of friends about 10 years ago managed to stretch one until it snapped (supposedly not possible said the makers) bloody well is says me and the people at the party, could have taken someones eye out said all in jest, but it actually could have, went with a dull twang and quite a bit of force too.
10:48 Here, the written answer isn't right either. England is a part of or a state in the country named United Kingdom. The UK is often wrongly named as being England. But this disrespects all the people of Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
England is a country not a state.
England is a country, as are all of the other ones you mentioned. The UK is a federation of sorts and presents internationally as a single, unified entity, kind of like Voltron or the Megazord.
When kids in school don't care about learning and refuse to study, the teacher should show videos like this and laugh at their answers.
7:52 queue Agro "yep she is past the point, bring me another dizzy blonde"
It should be cue Agro.
WWII had two "end dates" ... one in europe and another one in asia.
I'm not even American and I'm embarrassed ... for the human species.
Some people do not jonw the difference between a country and a continent. Maybe it is because America can both refer to the United States and north anf Douth America as welll.
Mate, nobody can believe trump is your next president! Could you send him to the Moon?
Poor guys, they live isolated in their bubble ignoring the world like the North Koreans.
Yup, and saluting their national flag every morning in school, also like North Korea ^^
I remember this one guy saying that London was the capital of Paris lol
WWI - 1914-18
WWII - 1939-45
WWII ended 3 October 1990, when Germany became a state again. Up to then it didn't exist from the post war occupation period and through the Cold War (as it was 2 countries). As WW2 was declared on a single German state, it couldn't be technically over until West and East Germany became Germany again.
Communist Germany built the wall. Our Lady brought it down. That occurred because St Pope John Paul Ii did as Our Lady had requested and prayed with all the Bishops of the world, and the Wall came down!
"France" is the default answer for anything overseas for many 'Muricans. So I'm not surprised it cropped up so many times as a wrong answer.
I might get a lot of heat for that, but whener I watch videos about young püeople in germany and the nonsense they say and do I think we are done. But then I watch a video like this from the US and think: Well, I think it's not sooo bad in germany! 😂SORRY!!!!!
Portuguese empire not Spanish.
I Disagree with the First Man on The Moon Questioning ,The Answer Neil Armstrong , My Answer Would of Been The Cameraman 😉
Lmfao, I remember sitting down and putting the pieces together about why it's the 21st century too xD
I'm French and teach History and Geography. I'm sending my thoughts and prayers to all of my colleagues across the Atlantic. May you have the strength to not quit on the spot after seeing this 😅
Right off the block, Buddha painted the Mona Lisa 😮😮😮😮