Reinforcing Al Murray's famous quote ! " The Yanks see the war of Independence as gaining their freedom, while we British see it as a lucky escape "....😘
@@spinynormanbest6410 Just because you went to a crap school doesn't mean everyone did. Unlike the USA our ignorant uneducated kids didn't cost us an average of $100k to be stupid.
I started dying when she said “CARE”! 🤣 Watching the youth of 🇺🇸 fail to answer the most basic questions is honestly more painful than getting a 🦷 pulled.
@@carinapersson3851 Because their school system is a bit broken. They either get excellent teachers or crap. Sweden has way harder requirements on the schools with constant evaluations based on national tests etc so our worst schools are much, much better than the worst US schools.
George Carlin said, "They want you just smart enough to press the button, and fill in the paperwork. They don't want you smart enough to ask awkward questions." I think the US has overachieved on that policy.
Was he the originator of this question? I have heard many versions of this, but never attributed it to him. If so, then he was more brilliant than I thought.
I am a Brit I have a younger sister who many years ago married an American who was living in the UK. She moved out there with him and lived and worked, initially with the Green Card but eventually applied for and was granted US citizenship. On one of her visits 'home', we were discussing the process and I thought it might be a bit of fun to see how well I would do at the Citizenship Test if I went into it 'cold' just armed with my general knowledge. It appeared that, 20 odd years ago at least, I would have passed. I had no need or desire to take it any further but she was quite impressed. Having seen the type of questions asked; might it be an idea to let all Americans take their own citizenship test? It is of course no business of mine what you do with those that fail.
I tried a test like that a few months ago, as a french. I got 18/20. This is embarrassing for the USA. And i see Americans say that the test for the french citizenship is hard and that it is 'unfair', when all there is are basic questions... I don't want any a**es to ever claim french citizenship if they can't even get a perfect score consistently. Throw them all to the sea. Don't care if they drown.
@@sfuirhg it depends on how you define soldier, according to the oxford dictionary, a soldier is "a person who serves in a army", since the civil war had armies on both sides, they were soldiers, at least using the oxford definition of soldier.
I'm Irish and could easily answer each of these questions. My geography lessons mean I can draw a map of North America, place the Rocky mountains and all major rivers . I can also name surrounding oceans. Same goes for Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and South America.
I have noticed that younger people do struggle a lot with maths questions. I don't know about the US, but in the UK we have gone down the road of exams with multiple choice questions, and of course they are allowed calculators as an aid. I'm ancient enough to remember working things out on paper, because not only did you have to get the correct answer, you had to show how you calculated the answer.
I am Canadian and my now sister in law moved up to Canada when she was in the tenth grade. They literally had to put her back several grades and send her to summer school, because her education was not up to what the Canadians were taught in school.
@@patticrichton1135 As a Canadian, I can vouch for that. I'm 50 and everything asked is basic knowledge most second graders can answer. And our parents said we knew nothing!
I'm a older millennial, my parents worried that the emphasis in schools had shifted towards grading student performance instead of acquiring knowledge so my parents always asked me to UNDERSTAND my lessons and not just parrot back the information and discarded the minute it was done being graded. It's a game changer
My parents did the same. They did not blame the tests, though. But they told me that the tests were not why education was important. Do good on tests, yes, but understand why the things you are learning are important.
Remember next time your debating somebody on social media. This is the mentality of many of the people on social media telling YOU how stupid you are lmao.
@@pelinalwhitestrake3367 God... I am french and for some reason, i am constantly horrified at how english native speakers write their native language sometimes. They mix up "it's" and "its" a lot, too. WHY TF?
6:55 I like how the one girl realized her friend was an idiot and just removed herself from the camera frame while her friend continued to make herself look like an idiot. 🤣
The older I get the more I lean towards Plato's view that only people who can demonstrate a certain level of education should be able to vote! Or more seriously, how about levelling up the education system? I doubt that you'd find so many dumb people in a place like Finland where they actually invest in their young students.
@@leaflet1686 No, dictatorship is terrible. Democracy is the best form invented so far, but maybe it should be limited to people who could pass a basic intelligence test, or a basic competency test. If you are insane or otherwise out of touch with reality, you really shouldn't have your hands on the levers of power. Of course, this should also go for people running for office - they ALSO shouldn't be insane or incredibly ignorant.
The Obama Care had me rolling on the floor 🤣. I like how in the movies if someone gets a concussion or whatnot and ends up in the hospital, the first thing the doctor asks to determine if there's amnesia, is "who's the current president?" 😂🤣 I think they gotta start asking something simpler...
In high school here in the UK, history was my favourite subject, mostly because my history teacher was brilliant at his job. He was also our head of house. 'The American West' and 'Medicine throughout the ages' were our two main topics at least from what I remember. This was back in the late 90s before it all became dumbed down.
The history in not much mentioned after Henry 8 and Queen Elizabeth. We learnt a lot about Hitler's Germany, Marco Polo, The Civil War, The take over of Indian territory. Never how we invaded India, Singapore, Pakistan, South Africa and much more...👁👁👁❤
@@lindaford5605 True but if we did mention the colonisation periods we'd also have to mention installing parliamentary democracies, railways, post offices, medical systems and abolishing things like indian women being put on top of their dead husbands pyres (if over child bearing age) whilst they were still alive or being passed onto the next male relative for sexual purposes (Hence HIV spreading so fast in India-African Muslim countries) The whole human race has done some nasty shit it isn't as black and white as British colonisation =Evil...
@@lindaford5605 Wow, my school must have been a strange one, because we did, and it was a fecking catholic school 90's and 2000's Maybe my parents had a reason not to send me to the local standard comp.... christ...
My parents topped up my education,by telling me interesting facts,about lots of different things.That got me interested enough,to get books from the library,and to further educate myself.
American youngsters seem to have missed the crucial bit of education ,which is to develop a sense of curiosity first ,then search for all available possible facts .
I'm from Australia and I knew all of the answers to the questions he asked. And yes I share your pain. It's a pity the kids these days can't use common maths when working at a supermarket or any other stores
@@Billyg215 Yeah, this is what happens when you allow calculators for such basic stuff. In India, you can't you calculators till High Schools. You don't even get it for like one of the hardest exams in the world like JEE here, you only get it in a few Universities for college.
The only one I didn’t know was “who was the 69th president”. I didn’t realise there had been so many 😂 I’m not American though, I’m Aussie so I can name previous prime ministers instead, but not in order. (Which reminds me of this time when I had a head injury and the ambulance guy asked “who is the prime minister” and I answered “when is it not an old white guy”. I mean I wasn’t technically wrong, but I did have a severe concussion)
@@elenalizabeth Only one I didn't know as well. Also not an American, but I thought they were only in the forties? Am I missing something... or is that it, there isn't one!? Although I probably would have been a smart-ass and said 'Pangaea' for the name a continent one... well he wasn't very specific was he😀
Love your reaction mate, top class! I've watched quite a few of these compilations, still amazes me at the stupidity and lack of knowledge from some people. I'm from the uk, and I left school with no qualifications, but I can name all the US states, UK counties, continents and most of the countries of the world. Just basic trivia of our world.
About fifteen years ago one of my sons went on a school trip to the USA and he got involved in one of these "vox pop" TV shows and was asked who won the civil War, so he answered _"The Roundheads"_ The guy asking the questions couldn't understand that other countries have had civil wars, and that some have had more than one so give them different names like _"The wars of the roses"_ or _"The glorious revolution"_ or just forget them altogether like the war between King Steven and empress Maud.
your son confused the Americans by citing something that happened outside their borders and years before their country was founded so no wonder he was baffled
I tested my 8 year old daughter with the 60mph question and she got it right. We don't even use miles per hour...we use kilometers per hour!!! My 11 year old named all the continents on the spot. Though still love you USA.💜
I have 11 Grand children and when they visit or stay at mine i teach them history and mathematics and every thing else to help them in this world. The same as i did to my sons and daughters as my parents did to me and my brothers and sisters. Because to me learning about this world is important in each and every way. But i do it in a fun way so that we can have a laugh and have fun at the same time. My wife rest her beautiful soul started teaching our kids maths, reading and writing as soon as we thought they where able to take it in.
Worse, they tell you that you have a 'superiority complex' when you dare correct them and explain them. I have seen it a lot on the internet, they spam insults.
We have one interesting sentence, here in Poland: what little Johnny does not learn, John will not know. And this sentence shows everything about people. Our knowledge depends not from teachers, just only from us.
Frenchman here.... I usually never comment on videos but this time I do... I laughed my head off watching your video and your reactions... I love your channel, keep it going... Greetings from my small french town... 😄
@@frombrum I didn't realise people would assume that myself and my colleagues (and anyone working either of these jobs) are unintelligent based on our jobs, but thanks. Still, I think what you say about others says more about you.
I feel for ya buddy. I'm English, and I knew all of those. Mind you, I'm 56 and like to think I had a good education. I wonder how kids in an English mall would cope with the same questions.
You are not doomed! You are doing the right thing good man! By doing these videos you may in courage people to Google more and learn more! Cheers to you from Germany! Sorry for my bad English!
This is funny and all, but the fact that he’s encouraging them with incorrect answers is a bit of a stupid letdown. Just reinforcing fiction in their heads.
Let's be honest. They completely forgot the entire encounter the moment he was out of their vision. Even if he tried to correct them they would have forgotten the correct answer anyway.
Yeah, people learn new things everyday. Just let them know the correct answer, who knows, maybe they'll share this info to their kid (or anything idc). This way the information will be passed around. Encouraging them with their wrong answer is like feeding their ego, and making them believe that they can never be wrong, or that they can learn from other people. This is actually what makes people stay dumb
Maybe I'm conditioned by the cultural behavior of my country , but if I were to be stopped by someone like him and be questionned like that ,I would IMMEDIATLY check if my answer was right. Even if I'm sure about myself. So for them the fact they did not know how to respond should be enough to be disturbing.
It's so sad, I once turned up for an A level equivalent maths exam without a calculator and found I was supposed to have taken one, had to work out cube roots to 2 decimal places on paper as a result, I still got a distinction. The answers to the 60mph question made me cry lol
Any wonder why so many kids are getting A grades these days when they can take calculators in Maths exams and English books into English Literature exams!
I was at secondary school in the UK, late 60's/early 70's. My favourite subjects were Geography and History. I reckon kids were taught well and knew more then than they know now. Give a kid today a blank map of the UK and ask them to write down the location of major towns and cities and many would have no idea. The history we were taught was not so much boring dates, battles and kings and queens, but was all about social, industrial and economic history. How factories began and agricultural methods were modernised. The growth of canals, railways, and how that changed people's lives from getting fresh food and goods countrywide, news from newspapers that could be distributed nationally at speed, and working away from home. Also the growth of unions, health and welfare etc and how this is much more relevant to how all our lives are today. Much better than knowing that some king slept in a certain four poster bed one night !!!
@@Billyg215 Another thing Billy, back in my day kids, even the less bright ones, could do mental arithmetic in their heads... and that was using Pounds , Shillings and Pence too! Ask a young person to add up two or three figures today and likely as not they've got to use a calculator!
The problem is MULTIMEDIA ... which does not require any WORK from the kids ... kinda like "using a pocket calculator" vs. "using a sheet of paper and a pen".
"Who fought in the civil war?" I say "Which one?" In the US Civil War: Confederates vs Unionists. In the English Civil War: Royalists vs Parliamentarians. Plus there's been thousands more in almost every country throughout history....
The main problem is they've never been taught to use any kind of critical thinking. They've gone through their education via multiple choice questions, where they're given the answers and then told to choose the right one. Being able to actually think about a question and draw the answer from understanding what the question is actually asking them seems to be a total anathema to them. There aren't even difficult questions, with most of the answers being within the questions themselves. The footage has been cherry-picked, for sure, but the questions are so simple that there should be next to no-one getting any of the answers wrong. And yet, there's enough to make these videos.
Bah ... even worse than that ... because "critical thinking" is a bit advanced, but the BASICS are completely missing ... like the continents and the ability to do BASIC MATH in their heads.
@@Muck006 perhaps American kids specialise too early in school. But Its more than what their curriculum is, they seem to live lives where they acquire no general knowledge day to day, have no interest in finding out how the world works around them. Are their lives so packed full with inconsequential fluffy cosmetic celebrity media trash that nothing else gets to them? And when they are adults is it a consequence of a working life with no days off and long hours?
I don't get that obsession with multiple choice questions. In my country there are literal rules about how much percent of any test can be multiple choice. Anything above that percentage is consudered too easy and not acceptable as a grade.
You would think because they don’t know these simple questions especially about the country they live in that they would at least go home and look it up. Even as a 40 year old if someone gives me information about something I didn’t know in any subject, specialty i inquire more and search it up on the internet, knowledge is very import. I hope the education system in America improves and the kids get more passionate about knowledge
@@ShahggTF2 I think maybe there is something in the water in the US of A cause this isn't normal. Ever seen someone this dumb in real life or did they dig hard to find them?
This poor man's look of defeat at the beginning when he's introducing these videos is heartbreaking. He looks like he's lost all hope and is just trying to get through these videos before he breaks down and cries. I feel your pain!
You definitely need a joint the size of a Telegraph pole after that. I also blame the parents. I’m very badly dyslexic yet I educated my son we sat and watched documentaries and discussed them The best thing a parent can teach their child is how to learn how to figure it out how to get the information and common sense
I'm from Denmark. I have a 9 year old son who has had English in school for 2 years. He just watched this video with me. He answered all the questions correctly with ease - except the civil war question where I had to translate the Civil War into "Den Amerikanske borgerkrig" - and he promptly answered "De Amerikanske nord stater mod de Amerikanske syd stater og så blev det ulovligt at have slaver" - Direct translation "The American north states against the American south states and then it became illegal to own slaves." ... So to the question "are you smarter than a 5th grader?" I would tell these people "no - you aren't - nor should you mess with kids who just started in the 3rd grade!" LOL! This is ACTUALLY insane!
So pleased to see your Eclectic Beard is regrowing. Some people might say that no student should be left behind...but some of these guys (non-sex specific) are actively running in the opposite direction.
I always laugh at a grocery shop if there's a young person on the till. It's so easy to confuse them if you try and help them by giving them more than the correct amount so they can say give you a note back instead of lots of loose change. . Most haven't a clue how to work out what they should give you in change and it totally stumps them. It's frightening how dumbed down our education system is now, many kids do not know the most simplest of things. The UK also has its fair share of dim people, its not just the US.
I agree with you, I remember as a child there was one girl in my street who was clever enough to go to university. So many people have degrees now, I think it has devalued the whole concept.
Well, over here in the Netherlands they fixed that problem years ago, by giving the young person the option of just typing in the amount of money you gave them and the display will show the difference to what amount they have to give back. But, then you can observe the struggle they have to find that exact amount, which can take a little while.
i have to look like a fool, and ask them for help, because all the money is such silly sizes and i don't know what i'm looking at (i kinda do) oddly enough, most of them must resort to childhood memory's because i then get a cute little lesson on the coins that have no bearing in size to anything they should (except pennies) ( US money, UK born)
wait, what sort of till requires the person to even do maths? you just enter the amount, it tells you the change and you give it to them. The only maths I can see them doing is selecting the correct amount of change. Like if the total is 96 and you pay $100 and $1, doesnt the till say they should give 5 in change, no maths needed?
You know what is funny to me, that Mexican education is considered bad(Nowadays it is going to go bad, but I already commented on why on another vid) but when I was in school in the 90s, in geography we had to learn the names and capitals of as many countries as we could, IIRC it was minimum 30, we had to learn that UK was a Constitutional monarchy, that Yugoslavia had disolved, that Russia was a very important player in the WW, that the 1st ww was started because of the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo(My mom used to say FROM sarajevo, but he wasn't from there), that the Nazis wanted mexican help(as if we could give any), that Simon Bolivar was a Central American hero that was instrumental in liberation, and we also were taught about the civil war, the stakes of the war... Heck, we even learned about people like Gral Custer and american founding fathers(I liked to called him Gral Custard, sorry about that lol), about the chinese empires, about the Japanese culture, about the Australian founding as a penal colony, about african history, the pyramids, etc.) so when I see that in america that is not BASIC education, I am surprised
When I was a kid (in France) we used to play a game called 'Baccalauréat' and it's basically a game of general culture. We choose a set number of topics (ie: random first name, country , town, color,whatever) and we chose a random letter and we had to come up with as many answers starting with that said letter. Now that I think about it. It's a crazy game kids should play video games 😂 but it helped a ton and we took a ton of pride winning.
@@r0yce That's rather unfair, there's the main colonial powers such as France, Portugal, Netherlands and Spain, you're forgetting recent history such as the Soviet Union
@@the98themperoroftheholybri33 It works pretty well as a heuristic, though. Especially if you're not from South America or Africa :P Of course, in the Soviet view of history, the Soviets (or Russians) were never imperialist. By definition. Which is the best way to not be something, of course. At least if you're well on board with the Soviet way of thinking (which itself evolved from the socialist managerial way of thinking). To anyone else, Russia is still an empire today, and a pretty crappy one at that.
The reason why they don't know is that these questions are simply not relevant to anything in their lives. It's like asking someone what the chemical formula for plastic is.
I know a ton of stuff not relevant to my life. Especially elementary level things like who fought in the civil war, what the continents are, and what 6X7 is.
@@TheEclecticBeard Me too (almost a hashtag). But we live in the mobile phone generation where people want instant gratification at the tap of a touchscreen (used to be a button). There's no instant gratification in education so many kids skip it altogether. The film Idiocracy called it. If we want people to be educated, brow beating them won't work. We need to communicate a positive incentive.
I have to admit that i enjoy your reactions E.B. Fear not, this has been intentional. The dumbing down of education for a generation over the last 30 years. It's not just the U.S. It's the U.K. and alot of Western countries too. The people behind the curtain don't want a mass of critically thinking people. A people who are not able to critically think are easier to control, and it's all about control.
@@group-music It's nothing to do with being unwilling to learn, it's the fact you had to point out a small grammatical error of insignificance just to make you look educationally superior that made me annoyed. I hope you enjoyed the moment.
The mph question. I heard a story, not sure how true it is but I heard that in my country the markers along the highway that tells you the distance to the next town they only used to put in 100km intervals until you get within 100km of the town and then they would put the signs up in shorter intervals. Reason being that the speed limit is 120km/h but some people when they saw the next town is 150km away they just adjusted their speed to 150km/h to make sure they are there within the hour. This is before GPS and all that good stuff. Like I say I don't know how true this is, but a fun story about our older generations lol
In 1985 (U.K.) my history teacher gave us a GCSE history exam paper with no advance warning. GCSE replaced the O Level exam fully across all subjects by 1987. I had been working for a year by then having opted not to go to University. We ALL passed easily with A grades including those who failed the O Level that year. We were doomed from that point. Welcome to the World of Stupid by design. Loved your reaction. LMFAO then had a cry....lol
I feel like aside from just being stupid or uneducated, a serious problem particular to many Americans, is that they are trained to answer through intuition more, and less by stepping back and thinking things through. So when intuition fails them, they don’t have a recourse, while if they thought it through, even not exactly knowing something would mostly affect the amount of time it takes to get to the right answer, instead of giving a wrong answer quickly.
Critical thinking isn't a priority for them. It's lousy on the youth where such a simple form of education could help them approach questions from a different perspective
autarchprinceps ,Yes ,you are right .We have moved from an Age of Science ,which followed the Age of Religion ,to now being in the Age of Emotion ,where feelings are the most important thing .
rational thinking seems to be non existent in the USA for some ... i mean look who they vote for ( mainly on the right) many there seem brain washed , paranoid , gullible and down right stupid and probably have no idea how to think things through and just believe what they are told
Just discovered your channel and am binge watching, love your videos. Great to see you wearing a Rhino's shirt, hi from Leeds, Yorkshire, England. Keep up the good work!
Alan, as you've said, it's depressing. More so is the fact that these kids find their ignorance so amusing, Walmart shoppers or not. There needs to be a fundamental examination of Americas geography and history curricula, perhaps you'd like to spend a video looking at early years exam papers. Might be enlightening, might it ?
My God... It seems like it's a worldwide thing that teens doesn't know nothing about continents... Here in Mexico you ask about continents and most of the teens would say they don't know or say any bullcrap. Same thing with holidays like Sepetmber 16th, May 5th, February 14th... And curiously, also here in my country is applied the policy of "Don't leave any child behind"...
Hilarious and sad at the same time. I'm Australian and knew the American Civil War was between the North and the South but now I'm wondering if I learned it at school or from watching Gone With the Wind, lol
Im a Norwegian and even i knew the answers, except the 69. President. But i guess its all young people today, all over the world having problems with Basic knowledge.
Flecca is absolute genial. I love how he always give people credit for the most outlandish answers. This is sadly not simply a test of people’s factual knowledge. It’s much worse. It’s a test of people’s ability and willingness to listen and process information. No fully functioning civilization can be built or maintained unless people are willing and able to absorb information, retain it long enough to process it, and produce an intelligent response in words or action.
This is what happens with decades of intelligence and education being ridiculed. When a society says that the football player is the top of the hierarchy because of his sporting achievements and the 'geek' is the bottom because of his intelligence and academic achievements is it little surprise that these people end up like this? I am sure many people who had potential and who might have been able to apply themselves towards a decent education ended up actively choosing not to because of how it would make their peers act towards them. I also wonder how many people in this video are just going along with their stupid friends because they either don't want to show them up on camera or because they don't want to out themselves as being more intelligent than the group, but that is probably just me hoping not everyone in the video is as dumb as they seem.
OMG l haven't laughed that much in ages, when you said no kid should be left behind l had to pause the video l couldn't see the screen for crying with laughter. Maths was always my favourite subject at school but in my day we didn't have calculators, we had to learn all the times tables by heart, and workout everything on paper. I'm 70 and to this day l still don't use a calculator l work it out in my head
yeah the basic 6x7 question.... when i went to school in sweden in the mid 80s we were thought the multiplication one table at the time - and each week we had a little test 60 questions in 1 minutes from the numbers we had learned (first week 0, 1, 5, 10 multiplied by numbers between 0-10) if you got them all right next week you had one more number to learn (so week 2 0,1,2,5,10 and so on) when we had all 10 we got 11 and 12. And when we managed to get all that (60 answers in 1 minut) we were advanced to 100 answers in 1 minute. It is still a part of my spinal cord some 40 years later
@@ShahggTF2 Good for you. My Dad, who was born in Wales in 1925 told me they were taught to do 'mental mathematics'. Try it. One trick is to take 1% of the total number, then use the times table for the rest.
I'm seventy-four and British. I could have answered all of those questions. I think that many Americans know nothing about the world outside of the USA. I have a degree, a diploma, three advanced level and five ordinary level qualifications including Maths and English but if you'd ask me for the capital of Wisconsin, I wouldn't know. It's up in the north-west of the USA right?.
I couldn't have answered the 69th president one. It is not particularly significant number to me. Also my answer to the civil war question would have been the roundheads and the cavaliers :)
@@stephenronaldson6301 Still not significant. I don't know how many kings of England there have been (though I could name most of them), and that is more important to me (being British).
Im Brazilian and I went to the US back in 1997 as an exchange student. When I returned home I found out that the year I studied as a junior in US high scool didnt count so I had to stay in school for one more year.🙄 I live in Brazil, a third world south american country (which I absolutely love!).
I'm assuming then that maybe the Confederates beat France in the first semi final and then the Union must have beaten Japan in the other before they met in the final. 😁 Unbelievable lack of knowledge on basic stuff that even as a non American I'd be ashamed not to know about America! I bet they could tell him chapter and verse on the Kardashians though or similar nonsense. As you say, we're doomed.
I work at an FE College in the uK and one of the exams we enter most people for is Foundation Maths - which is to say, trying to get them to pass the most basic part of our 16+ mathematics exam. There's many that don't. This at a place where the students are generally aiming at going to university (about 60% go) and presumably should be brighter than average. Worth noting the Moser Report from 1998 found 46% of adults were below that level in maths (16% in English). Yes, this is the population the Boris Johnson thinks can be a high-skill high-wage population, while also cutting school budgets and discouraging adult education programs that aren't demanded by firms.
As an Aussie growing up in the 60s n 70s I knew more about Washington crossing the Delaware and the American civil war than my own nations rich and amazing history thanks to American media and culture back then. Then I started high school and dropped American history like a sack of smelly shit!
His shirt says.. "Trust me, the glass is half empty". Greatest shirt ever. Hi from France. PS: you need the link the original video, so that we can visit it and pay it tribute. This would help with authorizations.
I feel your pain! However, as a former teaching assistant for 11 to 18 year old pupils here in the UK for couple of decades, I can assure you that your country is not alone! One of my jobs was to scribe for pupils with learning difficulties doing their exams, which meant reading out the questions and writing down their answers word for word. I don't know how the hell I managed to keep a straight face with some of the answers! Lovely young adults to work with, and it did break your heart a little bit after seeing all the time and effort that the teachers put in to making learning more accessible to these pupils, but go to pieces when they were put in an exam situation.
lol Teachers in the main don't make any effort for the outliers. They teach to the standard of the mediocre mean, leaving behind the slow and hobbling the advanced.
If you're scribing for a child it means they have learning difficulties......but well done at you cheap jab for likes ...I hope you're no longer employed
The last question of whats the biggest number you can think of isn't necessarily wrong. If at the moment 100 is what came to mind it isn't wrong. He didn't ask what the highest number she knows of. He basically asked whats the biggest number that come to your mind is.
Went to college in Australia to learn Engineering. They had advanced maths. This advanced maths is what we learnt for our exams at 16. Go knows what they would have thought of A-Level maths from the UK. Paul, I remember those days during our maths exams. Not only the answer, but the working out as well. Even the aptitude test for the RAF as a fighter pilot. 50 maths questions, 5 minutes and a scrap of paper to work it out.
Reinforcing Al Murray's famous quote ! " The Yanks see the war of Independence as gaining their freedom, while we British see it as a lucky escape "....😘
I see it as more as a necessary amputation of a limb that was turning septic
What a lucky escape
The UK education system is just as bad we can't be feeling superior...
@@spinynormanbest6410 Just because you went to a crap school doesn't mean everyone did. Unlike the USA our ignorant uneducated kids didn't cost us an average of $100k to be stupid.
@@spinynormanbest6410 No it isn't and yes we absolutely can
Obama Care must have been the best answer I have heard in all those videos. I almost fell out of my seat from laughter . Ty girl!🤣🤣🤣
The best part of the 'Obama's name' question at 6:37 is the friend who gets it right, then immediately leaves because her friend is a moron.
I started dying when she said “CARE”! 🤣 Watching the youth of 🇺🇸 fail to answer the most basic questions is honestly more painful than getting a 🦷 pulled.
@@CMD315 Yes, but of course they had a president Obama Care. Welcome, mr Care. Would you care for some refreshments?
I'm from Sweden and I know the right answers...
Why don't the americans??
@@carinapersson3851 Because their school system is a bit broken. They either get excellent teachers or crap. Sweden has way harder requirements on the schools with constant evaluations based on national tests etc so our worst schools are much, much better than the worst US schools.
@@carinapersson3851 our school system is made to create factory robots, not smart thinkers because those are dangerous to the status quo
“I’m wandering how many times he had to fight back the urge to slap them...try again” 😂😂😂 priceless
George Carlin said, "They want you just smart enough to press the button, and fill in the paperwork. They don't want you smart enough to ask awkward questions."
I think the US has overachieved on that policy.
U.K. too
I have the pet theory that Americans are deliberately kept dumb so they can be got to vote against their own interests
Was he the originator of this question? I have heard many versions of this, but never attributed it to him. If so, then he was more brilliant than I thought.
I am a Brit I have a younger sister who many years ago married an American who was living in the UK.
She moved out there with him and lived and worked, initially with the Green Card but eventually applied for and was granted US citizenship.
On one of her visits 'home', we were discussing the process and I thought it might be a bit of fun to see how well I would do at the Citizenship Test if I went into it 'cold' just armed with my general knowledge. It appeared that, 20 odd years ago at least, I would have passed. I had no need or desire to take it any further but she was quite impressed. Having seen the type of questions asked; might it be an idea to let all Americans take their own citizenship test?
It is of course no business of mine what you do with those that fail.
I tried a test like that a few months ago, as a french. I got 18/20. This is embarrassing for the USA. And i see Americans say that the test for the french citizenship is hard and that it is 'unfair', when all there is are basic questions... I don't want any a**es to ever claim french citizenship if they can't even get a perfect score consistently. Throw them all to the sea. Don't care if they drown.
I know for a fact that 90% of Australians would fail their citizenship test.
‘Who fought in the Civil War?’ ‘Soldiers.’ To be fair, she wasn’t entirely wrong.
😆 Like if I had five apples in each hand, what would I have? .....big hands
Full marks in answer avoidance, she could go into politics with this 😅
You could say that's thinking outside the box but I don't think she did that on purpose 🤔
"Civil" war so none of them where actually soldiers, no ?
@@sfuirhg it depends on how you define soldier, according to the oxford dictionary, a soldier is "a person who serves in a army", since the civil war had armies on both sides, they were soldiers, at least using the oxford definition of soldier.
I'm Irish and could easily answer each of these questions. My geography lessons mean I can draw a map of North America, place the Rocky mountains and all major rivers . I can also name surrounding oceans. Same goes for Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and South America.
Well, that’s just peachy. Good for you mate.
He asked for a continent but would America works as an answer?
Ach your just a show off, 😆
@@NaraOfCambodia no.
Your reaction is perfectly natural. You have to laugh or otherwise be overwhelmed with despair for the future.
I caught myself laughing and suddenly thought, like you; "It would be funny if it wasn't so frightening".
The "No child left behind and he found every one" comment had me spitting coffee and choking 😂😂😂
Next stop needs to be George Carlin..
I was in special Ed in grade school and I dropped out of high school but these kids make me feel like a genius
Larry this is what you would have answered ... if you stayed in high school ..
I have noticed that younger people do struggle a lot with maths questions.
I don't know about the US, but in the UK we have gone down the road of exams with multiple choice questions, and of course they are allowed calculators as an aid.
I'm ancient enough to remember working things out on paper, because not only did you have to get the correct answer, you had to show how you calculated the answer.
I still remember using a slide rule and logarithmic tables for maths at school! That was back in the 60's.
@@nekite1 When i went to school, we didn't have all those fancy Algo things. We had Sums.
They struggle with maths now because they're given calculators in school whereas we all did mental arithmetic
@@wallywombat164 I was talking about mathematics as in geometry, trigonometry and algebra, not arithmetic (sums).
Same. But it's all mathematics. 🇬🇧
I am Canadian and my now sister in law moved up to Canada when she was in the tenth grade. They literally had to put her back several grades and send her to summer school, because her education was not up to what the Canadians were taught in school.
😮 As a French Canadian (Québec)
and Canadians know more about American History than most young people here in the US.
What ? "Several grades" ?
You mean like down to 7th grade from 10th ?
@@patticrichton1135 As a Canadian, I can vouch for that. I'm 50 and everything asked is basic knowledge most second graders can answer. And our parents said we knew nothing!
I just asked my 13 year old New Zealander daughter these questions, and she got only 1 wrong. X
6 X7= 42 the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
What if the scrabble bag was right and it's 6x9???
I _just_ made a similar comment. But mine was about how awful I am at math, and literally only knew the answer because of H2G2 😂
I'm a older millennial, my parents worried that the emphasis in schools had shifted towards grading student performance instead of acquiring knowledge so my parents always asked me to UNDERSTAND my lessons and not just parrot back the information and discarded the minute it was done being graded. It's a game changer
My parents did the same. They did not blame the tests, though. But they told me that the tests were not why education was important. Do good on tests, yes, but understand why the things you are learning are important.
Remember next time your debating somebody on social media. This is the mentality of many of the people on social media telling YOU how stupid you are lmao.
* you're
@@stevenmathers6661 Literally same thing...
@@stevenmathers6661 no, your, its his debate he posses it
@@outlaweduk no, "debating" is a verb. "you're debating"
@@pelinalwhitestrake3367 God... I am french and for some reason, i am constantly horrified at how english native speakers write their native language sometimes. They mix up "it's" and "its" a lot, too. WHY TF?
6:55
I like how the one girl realized her friend was an idiot and just removed herself from the camera frame while her friend continued to make herself look like an idiot. 🤣
She's dying. Just exit herself out of there. XD
"The best argument against democracy is a 5 minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill.
So dictatorship it is?
@@leaflet1686 Well, supposedly Churchill also said: "Democracy is the worst system of government, except all others we tried."
The older I get the more I lean towards Plato's view that only people who can demonstrate a certain level of education should be able to vote! Or more seriously, how about levelling up the education system? I doubt that you'd find so many dumb people in a place like Finland where they actually invest in their young students.
Especially Americans.
@@leaflet1686 No, dictatorship is terrible. Democracy is the best form invented so far, but maybe it should be limited to people who could pass a basic intelligence test, or a basic competency test. If you are insane or otherwise out of touch with reality, you really shouldn't have your hands on the levers of power. Of course, this should also go for people running for office - they ALSO shouldn't be insane or incredibly ignorant.
The Obama Care had me rolling on the floor 🤣. I like how in the movies if someone gets a concussion or whatnot and ends up in the hospital, the first thing the doctor asks to determine if there's amnesia, is "who's the current president?" 😂🤣 I think they gotta start asking something simpler...
In high school here in the UK, history was my favourite subject, mostly because my history teacher was brilliant at his job. He was also our head of house. 'The American West' and 'Medicine throughout the ages' were our two main topics at least from what I remember. This was back in the late 90s before it all became dumbed down.
The history in not much mentioned after Henry 8 and Queen Elizabeth. We learnt a lot about Hitler's Germany, Marco Polo, The Civil War, The take over of Indian territory. Never how we invaded India, Singapore, Pakistan, South Africa and much more...👁👁👁❤
I did the same subjects!
@@lindaford5605 True but if we did mention the colonisation periods we'd also have to mention installing parliamentary democracies, railways, post offices, medical systems and abolishing things like indian women being put on top of their dead husbands pyres (if over child bearing age) whilst they were still alive or being passed onto the next male relative for sexual purposes (Hence HIV spreading so fast in India-African Muslim countries)
The whole human race has done some nasty shit it isn't as black and white as British colonisation =Evil...
@@lindaford5605 Wow, my school must have been a strange one, because we did, and it was a fecking catholic school 90's and 2000's
Maybe my parents had a reason not to send me to the local standard comp....
christ...
I did those subjects too, along with the Irish troubles. I loved it especially as our teacher, Mr manting let us watch young guns and other westerns.
My parents topped up my education,by telling me interesting facts,about lots of different things.That got me interested enough,to get books from the library,and to further educate myself.
American youngsters seem to have missed the crucial bit of education ,which is to develop a sense of curiosity first ,then search for all available possible facts .
My 7 year old grandson reads books in bed he doesn't have a phone he likes history best
I'm from Australia and I knew all of the answers to the questions he asked. And yes I share your pain. It's a pity the kids these days can't use common maths when working at a supermarket or any other stores
It`s because they do not put pen to paper to work maths out.
@@Billyg215 Yeah, this is what happens when you allow calculators for such basic stuff. In India, you can't you calculators till High Schools. You don't even get it for like one of the hardest exams in the world like JEE here, you only get it in a few Universities for college.
The only one I didn’t know was “who was the 69th president”. I didn’t realise there had been so many 😂
I’m not American though, I’m Aussie so I can name previous prime ministers instead, but not in order.
(Which reminds me of this time when I had a head injury and the ambulance guy asked “who is the prime minister” and I answered “when is it not an old white guy”. I mean I wasn’t technically wrong, but I did have a severe concussion)
@@elenalizabeth Only one I didn't know as well. Also not an American, but I thought they were only in the forties? Am I missing something... or is that it, there isn't one!?
Although I probably would have been a smart-ass and said 'Pangaea' for the name a continent one... well he wasn't very specific was he😀
@@elenalizabeth well, we had the orangutan Gillard at one point.
Love your reaction mate, top class!
I've watched quite a few of these compilations, still amazes me at the stupidity and lack of knowledge from some people.
I'm from the uk, and I left school with no qualifications, but I can name all the US states, UK counties, continents and most of the countries of the world. Just basic trivia of our world.
About fifteen years ago one of my sons went on a school trip to the USA and he got involved in one of these "vox pop" TV shows and was asked who won the civil War, so he answered _"The Roundheads"_ The guy asking the questions couldn't understand that other countries have had civil wars, and that some have had more than one so give them different names like _"The wars of the roses"_ or _"The glorious revolution"_ or just forget them altogether like the war between King Steven and empress Maud.
your son confused the Americans by citing something that happened outside their borders and years before their country was founded so no wonder he was baffled
I tested my 8 year old daughter with the 60mph question and she got it right. We don't even use miles per hour...we use kilometers per hour!!! My 11 year old named all the continents on the spot. Though still love you USA.💜
Doesn't bode well when you consider these are the future!!!
We have our own version here in the UK but, I think the US has us beat on this one 🤯
Yeah and she's about to be made Prime Minister
Aye look through history and you will see america isnt as smart as they are made out to be
@@claverhouse1 But think about the boost to The pork Markets. 🤣
These people aren't the future, they are future prisoners and drug addicts.
Depends on your definition of 'future'. We fear the worst and hope for the best.
I have 11 Grand children and when they visit or stay at mine i teach them history and mathematics and every thing else to help them in this world. The same as i did to my sons and daughters as my parents did to me and my brothers and sisters. Because to me learning about this world is important in each and every way. But i do it in a fun way so that we can have a laugh and have fun at the same time. My wife rest her beautiful soul started teaching our kids maths, reading and writing as soon as we thought they where able to take it in.
I hope your kids are okay, I get the feeling they will be getting some extra questions thrown at them!!
The best part of this guy's videos are when they get an answer totally wrong and he says "correct" and just keeps it moving
What gets me is even if they knew they were wrong they wouldn't be bothered.
Incredible that they could just laugh off their stupidity in places like Japan they would be shamed for this kind of behavior
Worse, they tell you that you have a 'superiority complex' when you dare correct them and explain them. I have seen it a lot on the internet, they spam insults.
We have one interesting sentence, here in Poland: what little Johnny does not learn, John will not know. And this sentence shows everything about people. Our knowledge depends not from teachers, just only from us.
If he asked me who fought in the civil war I'd answer Cavaliers and Roundheads 🤣🤣🤣
Hello there Britain! Love you too.
Frenchman here.... I usually never comment on videos but this time I do... I laughed my head off watching your video and your reactions... I love your channel, keep it going... Greetings from my small french town... 😄
in england we have found a solution
we collect them all together and put them on reality tv show as a warning to others
Nice...
better solution; pick the worst students and throw them onto an desolated island for a deathgame, called battle royal.
@@Berek71182
But who would fill the shelves and clean my toilets?
In the UK your media demonizing any one that’s better but not British.
@@frombrum I didn't realise people would assume that myself and my colleagues (and anyone working either of these jobs) are unintelligent based on our jobs, but thanks. Still, I think what you say about others says more about you.
I've seen so many Americans say "the continent of the United States" ....I can't deal with that
I feel for ya buddy. I'm English, and I knew all of those. Mind you, I'm 56 and like to think I had a good education. I wonder how kids in an English mall would cope with the same questions.
As An Englishman myself, who is in his 60's I can certainly guarantee, that the USA is not alone, we have our own quota of idiots!
You are not doomed! You are doing the right thing good man! By doing these videos you may in courage people to Google more and learn more! Cheers to you from Germany! Sorry for my bad English!
This is funny and all, but the fact that he’s encouraging them with incorrect answers is a bit of a stupid letdown.
Just reinforcing fiction in their heads.
Let's be honest. They completely forgot the entire encounter the moment he was out of their vision. Even if he tried to correct them they would have forgotten the correct answer anyway.
I think he doing that more for legal reasons, so it woud get consent to show them and not get sued
Yeah, people learn new things everyday. Just let them know the correct answer, who knows, maybe they'll share this info to their kid (or anything idc). This way the information will be passed around. Encouraging them with their wrong answer is like feeding their ego, and making them believe that they can never be wrong, or that they can learn from other people. This is actually what makes people stay dumb
Could also be that he discloses the right answers off camera afterwards.
Maybe I'm conditioned by the cultural behavior of my country , but if I were to be stopped by someone like him and be questionned like that ,I would IMMEDIATLY check if my answer was right. Even if I'm sure about myself. So for them the fact they did not know how to respond should be enough to be disturbing.
It's so sad, I once turned up for an A level equivalent maths exam without a calculator and found I was supposed to have taken one, had to work out cube roots to 2 decimal places on paper as a result, I still got a distinction. The answers to the 60mph question made me cry lol
Any wonder why so many kids are getting A grades these days when they can take calculators in Maths exams and English books into English Literature exams!
I was at secondary school in the UK, late 60's/early 70's. My favourite subjects were Geography and History. I reckon kids were taught well and knew more then than they know now. Give a kid today a blank map of the UK and ask them to write down the location of major towns and cities and many would have no idea. The history we were taught was not so much boring dates, battles and kings and queens, but was all about social, industrial and economic history. How factories began and agricultural methods were modernised. The growth of canals, railways, and how that changed people's lives from getting fresh food and goods countrywide, news from newspapers that could be distributed nationally at speed, and working away from home. Also the growth of unions, health and welfare etc and how this is much more relevant to how all our lives are today. Much better than knowing that some king slept in a certain four poster bed one night !!!
TOTALLY agree with you on that. Education ??? is dumbing our kids down now. To me it`s between the have and have nots in education.
@@Billyg215 Another thing Billy, back in my day kids, even the less bright ones, could do mental arithmetic in their heads... and that was using Pounds , Shillings and Pence too! Ask a young person to add up two or three figures today and likely as not they've got to use a calculator!
@@trevordance5181 That is so true but then again i dare some kids would think a calculator was a mobile and try to ring their mates.
The problem is MULTIMEDIA ... which does not require any WORK from the kids ... kinda like "using a pocket calculator" vs. "using a sheet of paper and a pen".
Quick question boomer... How many people in your classes?
"Who fought in the civil war?" I say "Which one?"
In the US Civil War: Confederates vs Unionists. In the English Civil War: Royalists vs Parliamentarians.
Plus there's been thousands more in almost every country throughout history....
In America the Civil War is theirs. In the UK the Civil War is ours. Stop trying to defend stupidity.
@@jamesbuckingham.2935 LOL! 👍
The main problem is they've never been taught to use any kind of critical thinking. They've gone through their education via multiple choice questions, where they're given the answers and then told to choose the right one. Being able to actually think about a question and draw the answer from understanding what the question is actually asking them seems to be a total anathema to them. There aren't even difficult questions, with most of the answers being within the questions themselves. The footage has been cherry-picked, for sure, but the questions are so simple that there should be next to no-one getting any of the answers wrong. And yet, there's enough to make these videos.
they need to be rounded up and investigated to find out how they became like this and where they were when life happened to them. Could be aliens
Bah ... even worse than that ... because "critical thinking" is a bit advanced, but the BASICS are completely missing ... like the continents and the ability to do BASIC MATH in their heads.
@@Muck006 perhaps American kids specialise too early in school. But Its more than what their curriculum is, they seem to live lives where they acquire no general knowledge day to day, have no interest in finding out how the world works around them. Are their lives so packed full with inconsequential fluffy cosmetic celebrity media trash that nothing else gets to them? And when they are adults is it a consequence of a working life with no days off and long hours?
Then why is it only a problem for Americans
I don't get that obsession with multiple choice questions. In my country there are literal rules about how much percent of any test can be multiple choice. Anything above that percentage is consudered too easy and not acceptable as a grade.
I love that your also answering the questions. You don’t have to prove you know the answer - the look on you face says it all my friend. ❤
LMFAO! Brilliant! Thanks man, needed that laugh. I hear you crying though, and I understand your pain.🤣
"Who fought in the Civil War?"
"Soldiers."
I mean... fair. I'd give her the dollar lol.
I'm surprised you did another one of these so quickly. It would be interesting how many people were asked and what proportion go the correct answer.
The soldiers answer, well technically she was right. Omg that was hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You would think because they don’t know these simple questions especially about the country they live in that they would at least go home and look it up. Even as a 40 year old if someone gives me information about something I didn’t know in any subject, specialty i inquire more and search it up on the internet, knowledge is very import. I hope the education system in America improves and the kids get more passionate about knowledge
Fr I'm 14 and I tend to google something I don't know and read from multiple, reliable sources
@@ShahggTF2 I think maybe there is something in the water in the US of A cause this isn't normal.
Ever seen someone this dumb in real life or did they dig hard to find them?
This poor man's look of defeat at the beginning when he's introducing these videos is heartbreaking. He looks like he's lost all hope and is just trying to get through these videos before he breaks down and cries. I feel your pain!
You definitely need a joint the size of a Telegraph pole after that. I also blame the parents. I’m very badly dyslexic yet I educated my son we sat and watched documentaries and discussed them
The best thing a parent can teach their child is how to learn how to figure it out how to get the information and common sense
I'm from Denmark. I have a 9 year old son who has had English in school for 2 years. He just watched this video with me. He answered all the questions correctly with ease - except the civil war question where I had to translate the Civil War into "Den Amerikanske borgerkrig" - and he promptly answered "De Amerikanske nord stater mod de Amerikanske syd stater og så blev det ulovligt at have slaver" - Direct translation "The American north states against the American south states and then it became illegal to own slaves."
... So to the question "are you smarter than a 5th grader?" I would tell these people "no - you aren't - nor should you mess with kids who just started in the 3rd grade!" LOL! This is ACTUALLY insane!
So pleased to see your Eclectic Beard is regrowing.
Some people might say that no student should be left behind...but some of these guys (non-sex specific) are actively running in the opposite direction.
Next time you listen to anyone wanting to cut the schools budget , just say 'Do Fuck Off ,you've done enough damage already!'
I always laugh at a grocery shop if there's a young person on the till. It's so easy to confuse them if you try and help them by giving them more than the correct amount so they can say give you a note back instead of lots of loose change. . Most haven't a clue how to work out what they should give you in change and it totally stumps them. It's frightening how dumbed down our education system is now, many kids do not know the most simplest of things. The UK also has its fair share of dim people, its not just the US.
I agree with you, I remember as a child there was one girl in my street who was clever enough to go to university. So many people have degrees now, I think it has devalued the whole concept.
Well, over here in the Netherlands they fixed that problem years ago, by giving the young person the option of just typing in the amount of money you gave them and the display will show the difference to what amount they have to give back.
But, then you can observe the struggle they have to find that exact amount, which can take a little while.
i have to look like a fool, and ask them for help, because all the money is such silly sizes and i don't know what i'm looking at (i kinda do) oddly enough, most of them must resort to childhood memory's because i then get a cute little lesson on the coins that have no bearing in size to anything they should (except
pennies) ( US money, UK born)
This is happening the world over because those that have have realised that they have educated the have nots far to much that we think you can fk off.
wait, what sort of till requires the person to even do maths? you just enter the amount, it tells you the change and you give it to them.
The only maths I can see them doing is selecting the correct amount of change.
Like if the total is 96 and you pay $100 and $1, doesnt the till say they should give 5 in change, no maths needed?
You know what is funny to me, that Mexican education is considered bad(Nowadays it is going to go bad, but I already commented on why on another vid) but when I was in school in the 90s, in geography we had to learn the names and capitals of as many countries as we could, IIRC it was minimum 30, we had to learn that UK was a Constitutional monarchy, that Yugoslavia had disolved, that Russia was a very important player in the WW, that the 1st ww was started because of the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo(My mom used to say FROM sarajevo, but he wasn't from there), that the Nazis wanted mexican help(as if we could give any), that Simon Bolivar was a Central American hero that was instrumental in liberation, and we also were taught about the civil war, the stakes of the war... Heck, we even learned about people like Gral Custer and american founding fathers(I liked to called him Gral Custard, sorry about that lol), about the chinese empires, about the Japanese culture, about the Australian founding as a penal colony, about african history, the pyramids, etc.) so when I see that in america that is not BASIC education, I am surprised
When I was a kid (in France) we used to play a game called 'Baccalauréat' and it's basically a game of general culture. We choose a set number of topics (ie: random first name, country , town, color,whatever) and we chose a random letter and we had to come up with as many answers starting with that said letter. Now that I think about it. It's a crazy game kids should play video games 😂 but it helped a ton and we took a ton of pride winning.
As a Brit I'm kind of offended people exist who don't know you won independence from us.
:(
I mean......if your country gained Independence....and you don't know from whom. Just guess Britain....and you'll be correct...almost all of the time.
@@r0yce That's rather unfair, there's the main colonial powers such as France, Portugal, Netherlands and Spain, you're forgetting recent history such as the Soviet Union
@@the98themperoroftheholybri33 It works pretty well as a heuristic, though. Especially if you're not from South America or Africa :P
Of course, in the Soviet view of history, the Soviets (or Russians) were never imperialist. By definition. Which is the best way to not be something, of course. At least if you're well on board with the Soviet way of thinking (which itself evolved from the socialist managerial way of thinking). To anyone else, Russia is still an empire today, and a pretty crappy one at that.
@@LuaanTi yes but prior to the Soviet Union there was a Russian empire
Im a Canadian and I was having the same reactions and jaw dropping response you had. Mind blowing. I like your channel by the way. Very funny.
Much appreciated.
These people must carry a cheat sheet, to remind them how to breathe. 😁
Your face palm in the thumbnail KILLS me 😭
And when you said "we're doomed" 💀
Never mind voter ID, I think we should have an entrance exam a the poling station before you can cast a vote. These people should not be allowed in.
The reason why they don't know is that these questions are simply not relevant to anything in their lives. It's like asking someone what the chemical formula for plastic is.
I know a ton of stuff not relevant to my life. Especially elementary level things like who fought in the civil war, what the continents are, and what 6X7 is.
@@TheEclecticBeard Me too (almost a hashtag). But we live in the mobile phone generation where people want instant gratification at the tap of a touchscreen (used to be a button). There's no instant gratification in education so many kids skip it altogether. The film Idiocracy called it. If we want people to be educated, brow beating them won't work. We need to communicate a positive incentive.
At this point I'm hearing crickets chirping while tumbleweed blows in one ear of these people and out the other. America has my sympathy, genuinely.
I'm european (Portugal to be more precise) and this is sad.
Ah yes, reciting the times-tables as a class... encouraged by a teacher with a twelve inch ruler.
I'm just relieved they didn't answer civil war with captain America vs iron man
I have to admit that i enjoy your reactions E.B.
Fear not, this has been intentional.
The dumbing down of education for a generation over the last 30 years.
It's not just the U.S. It's the U.K. and alot of Western countries too.
The people behind the curtain don't want a mass of critically thinking people.
A people who are not able to critically think are easier to control, and it's all about control.
@@group-music Yes, you are correct Stephen, reach over your shoulder of choice and pat yourself on the back.
@@group-music It's nothing to do with being unwilling to learn, it's the fact you had to point out a small grammatical error of insignificance just to make you look educationally superior that made me annoyed. I hope you enjoyed the moment.
@@group-music Pedantic much! 🙄🙄
George Carlin's - "Life is Worth Losing - Dumb Americans"
Yes, Idiocracy was not meant to be the guidebook for the future...
(That and 1984)
The mph question. I heard a story, not sure how true it is but I heard that in my country the markers along the highway that tells you the distance to the next town they only used to put in 100km intervals until you get within 100km of the town and then they would put the signs up in shorter intervals. Reason being that the speed limit is 120km/h but some people when they saw the next town is 150km away they just adjusted their speed to 150km/h to make sure they are there within the hour. This is before GPS and all that good stuff. Like I say I don't know how true this is, but a fun story about our older generations lol
In 1985 (U.K.) my history teacher gave us a GCSE history exam paper with no advance warning. GCSE replaced the O Level exam fully across all subjects by 1987. I had been working for a year by then having opted not to go to University. We ALL passed easily with A grades including those who failed the O Level that year. We were doomed from that point. Welcome to the World of Stupid by design. Loved your reaction. LMFAO then had a cry....lol
I still can't get my head around English Literature A Level students being awarded extra marks just because of correct spelling and grammar!
@@B-A-L They aren't. Points are deducted for incorrect spelling and grammar.
This is so sad! They dont even think! How are they going to go to College? What kind of professionals are they going to be? Its frightening!
I know these people got caught out, but these are the type of questions you know if they wake you up from a drunken stupor.
It really is both disgusting and scary at the same time!😂
I feel like aside from just being stupid or uneducated, a serious problem particular to many Americans, is that they are trained to answer through intuition more, and less by stepping back and thinking things through. So when intuition fails them, they don’t have a recourse, while if they thought it through, even not exactly knowing something would mostly affect the amount of time it takes to get to the right answer, instead of giving a wrong answer quickly.
Critical thinking isn't a priority for them. It's lousy on the youth where such a simple form of education could help them approach questions from a different perspective
autarchprinceps ,Yes ,you are right .We have moved from an Age of Science ,which followed the Age of Religion ,to now being in the Age of Emotion ,where feelings are the most important thing .
rational thinking seems to be non existent in the USA for some ... i mean look who they vote for ( mainly on the right) many there seem brain washed , paranoid , gullible and down right stupid and probably have no idea how to think things through and just believe what they are told
There's a line in Ferris Bueller's Day Off that always springs to mind when I see stupidity in the younger generation. "I weep for the future."
Hilarious and they’re worried about teaching kids about transgender people. But a basic education apparently is a step too far….
You know why that is? Because lots of the really important stuff was either created or refined by "oppressors".
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Alan, as you've said, it's depressing. More so is the fact that these kids find their ignorance so amusing, Walmart shoppers or not. There needs to be a fundamental examination of Americas geography and history curricula, perhaps you'd like to spend a video looking at early years exam papers. Might be enlightening, might it ?
what a great idea
I'd suggest a TEST where you have to prove some of this BASIC KNOWLEDGE ... or else you arent allowed TO VOTE!
@@Muck006 But what do you do when they can't read the questions ...... ? You're right though.
My God... It seems like it's a worldwide thing that teens doesn't know nothing about continents... Here in Mexico you ask about continents and most of the teens would say they don't know or say any bullcrap. Same thing with holidays like Sepetmber 16th, May 5th, February 14th...
And curiously, also here in my country is applied the policy of "Don't leave any child behind"...
Hilarious and sad at the same time. I'm Australian and knew the American Civil War was between the North and the South but now I'm wondering if I learned it at school or from watching Gone With the Wind, lol
It doesn't matter WHERE you learned it, you DID learn it. Unlike the respondents to this quiz.
I didn't even know it was a North vs South thing before. Being a civil war though, you'd think they'd at least say Americans vs. Americans
Im a Norwegian and even i knew the answers, except the 69. President. But i guess its all young people today, all over the world having problems with Basic knowledge.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits" Albert Einstein
Flecca is absolute genial. I love how he always give people credit for the most outlandish answers. This is sadly not simply a test of people’s factual knowledge. It’s much worse. It’s a test of people’s ability and willingness to listen and process information. No fully functioning civilization can be built or maintained unless people are willing and able to absorb information, retain it long enough to process it, and produce an intelligent response in words or action.
I think we Brits had a lucky escape lol. This is what happens when everyone wins a trophy
This is what happens with decades of intelligence and education being ridiculed.
When a society says that the football player is the top of the hierarchy because of his sporting achievements and the 'geek' is the bottom because of his intelligence and academic achievements is it little surprise that these people end up like this?
I am sure many people who had potential and who might have been able to apply themselves towards a decent education ended up actively choosing not to because of how it would make their peers act towards them.
I also wonder how many people in this video are just going along with their stupid friends because they either don't want to show them up on camera or because they don't want to out themselves as being more intelligent than the group, but that is probably just me hoping not everyone in the video is as dumb as they seem.
All of these people probably have already watched the sad figures they made in these videos. I just hope they read the comments.
OMG l haven't laughed that much in ages, when you said no kid should be left behind l had to pause the video l couldn't see the screen for crying with laughter. Maths was always my favourite subject at school but in my day we didn't have calculators, we had to learn all the times tables by heart, and workout everything on paper. I'm 70 and to this day l still don't use a calculator l work it out in my head
yeah the basic 6x7 question.... when i went to school in sweden in the mid 80s we were thought the multiplication one table at the time - and each week we had a little test 60 questions in 1 minutes from the numbers we had learned (first week 0, 1, 5, 10 multiplied by numbers between 0-10) if you got them all right next week you had one more number to learn (so week 2 0,1,2,5,10 and so on) when we had all 10 we got 11 and 12. And when we managed to get all that (60 answers in 1 minut) we were advanced to 100 answers in 1 minute. It is still a part of my spinal cord some 40 years later
I'm 14 going into highschool. I was never taught times tables past 5 I shit you not I've had to learn It myself.
@@ShahggTF2 Good for you. My Dad, who was born in Wales in 1925 told me they were taught to do 'mental mathematics'. Try it. One trick is to take 1% of the total number, then use the times table for the rest.
i feel your pain With such videos, I always hope that most people gave correct answers and were therefore cut out.
I'm seventy-four and British. I could have answered all of those questions. I think that many Americans know nothing about the world outside of the USA. I have a degree, a diploma, three advanced level and five ordinary level qualifications including Maths and English but if you'd ask me for the capital of Wisconsin, I wouldn't know. It's up in the north-west of the USA right?.
I couldn't have answered the 69th president one. It is not particularly significant number to me. Also my answer to the civil war question would have been the roundheads and the cavaliers :)
Most of them know nothing about inside USA too
@@peterjackson4763 The current president is the 46th president. There has not been a 69th one.
@@stephenronaldson6301 Still not significant. I don't know how many kings of England there have been (though I could name most of them), and that is more important to me (being British).
@@peterjackson4763 Me too, I am also British.
Im Brazilian and I went to the US back in 1997 as an exchange student. When I returned home I found out that the year I studied as a junior in US high scool didnt count so I had to stay in school for one more year.🙄 I live in Brazil, a third world south american country (which I absolutely love!).
Who fought in the civil war?
"soldiers" 🤣🤣🤣
Well she's technically correct haha
I was expecting someone to say iron man
@@owainhopkins2238 i was expecting someone to say Captain America fought in the civil war
"Technically correct - the best kind of correct!"
She's owed the dollar.
"...no child left behind and he found everyone of them $#^@#% in one video" 🤣🤣🤣
I'm assuming then that maybe the Confederates beat France in the first semi final and then the Union must have beaten Japan in the other before they met in the final. 😁 Unbelievable lack of knowledge on basic stuff that even as a non American I'd be ashamed not to know about America! I bet they could tell him chapter and verse on the Kardashians though or similar nonsense. As you say, we're doomed.
"What's the biggest numer you can think of" is a hell of a trick question. No matter what number you pick, you can obviosly think of something bigger.
I work at an FE College in the uK and one of the exams we enter most people for is Foundation Maths - which is to say, trying to get them to pass the most basic part of our 16+ mathematics exam. There's many that don't. This at a place where the students are generally aiming at going to university (about 60% go) and presumably should be brighter than average. Worth noting the Moser Report from 1998 found 46% of adults were below that level in maths (16% in English).
Yes, this is the population the Boris Johnson thinks can be a high-skill high-wage population, while also cutting school budgets and discouraging adult education programs that aren't demanded by firms.
Populist leaders love idiots, it makes it easier to feed them B.S. they will swallow it and ask for more.
As an Aussie growing up in the 60s n 70s I knew more about Washington crossing the Delaware and the American civil war than my own nations rich and amazing history thanks to American media and culture back then.
Then I started high school and dropped American history like a sack of smelly shit!
"Who fought in the civil war?"
"Soldiers."
Well, technically she's not wrong. Lol.
His shirt says.. "Trust me, the glass is half empty". Greatest shirt ever. Hi from France.
PS: you need the link the original video, so that we can visit it and pay it tribute. This would help with authorizations.
I feel your pain! However, as a former teaching assistant for 11 to 18 year old pupils here in the UK for couple of decades, I can assure you that your country is not alone! One of my jobs was to scribe for pupils with learning difficulties doing their exams, which meant reading out the questions and writing down their answers word for word. I don't know how the hell I managed to keep a straight face with some of the answers! Lovely young adults to work with, and it did break your heart a little bit after seeing all the time and effort that the teachers put in to making learning more accessible to these pupils, but go to pieces when they were put in an exam situation.
I was going to say honestly, I think UK teenagers would struggle with some of these questions too
lol Teachers in the main don't make any effort for the outliers. They teach to the standard of the mediocre mean, leaving behind the slow and hobbling the advanced.
If you're scribing for a child it means they have learning difficulties......but well done at you cheap jab for likes ...I hope you're no longer employed
The last question of whats the biggest number you can think of isn't necessarily wrong. If at the moment 100 is what came to mind it isn't wrong. He didn't ask what the highest number she knows of. He basically asked whats the biggest number that come to your mind is.
Went to college in Australia to learn Engineering. They had advanced maths. This advanced maths is what we learnt for our exams at 16. Go knows what they would have thought of A-Level maths from the UK. Paul, I remember those days during our maths exams. Not only the answer, but the working out as well. Even the aptitude test for the RAF as a fighter pilot. 50 maths questions, 5 minutes and a scrap of paper to work it out.
I was waiting for someone to say iron man and captain America for the civil war question.
Yepp that would actually be a legit dumb american respons 😂