American Reacts to How Smart are Canadian High Schoolers?
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- Опубликовано: 29 апр 2023
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As an American I tend to see a lot of news and social media about how our younger generations may not as educated as their parents due to the detractions of the internet, and for this reason I am very interested in learning about how smart Canadian High School students are in this video. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
Canadians do know feet and inches because most of us use those measurements for our own height. We do list our height in centimetres on our driver's licence because it is a government ID. Our rulers have both inches and centimetres on them as well. A lot of Canadians are hybrid users of both the metric and imperial systems.
Definitely. I do height in inches and feet, weight in pounds, dry measurements in cups/spoons, but liquid measurements in liters and distance in kms. I also use both inches and cm/mm for measuring small things.
They also know how many grams in an ounce.😁
@@niemi5858 I know now, but only because I had to for a job I had at one point. Definitely didn't learn in school. We learned things like decimeters which was obviously so useful in real life LOL.😅
@@celticlass8573
Whoosh.
@@brenthenderson3983 Yes, because that's the standard for measurements used for many official things. But I'd wager the average Canadian has no idea what they weigh in kg and how tall they are in cm.
In Canada when I was in high school we use and was taught both metric and imperial. Now as an adult being a machinist I have to switch from metric to imperial and back all the time.
I used both systems in machining. It depended on the customer.
The thing that scared me though was having a lead hand instal tool blocks using Imperial bolts on a metric machine.
Only because your company deals with Americans! 'LOL'
@dax9431 we deal with Canadian, American, and European companies all over the world. Our machines are metric. Our drawings are both depending on the part, and our tooling is both depending on the part
Much like you switch tenses in grammar 😆
@richardc8795 me? If you talking about me sorry it's prob my dyslexia, but you know what I mean.
Hey @Tyler - there is another angle here - a lot of Canadians won't correct someone using "president" instead of Prime Minister because it's impolite. We're kinda used to people thinking we're like USA
Yes, it’s not polite to correct and embarrass someone. I think that was definitely a factor for some of them.
My thought exactly. They aren’t drawing attention to the questioner’s mistake. Very Canadian.
I have no problem correcting anyone who thinks we have a president.
Shows how important it is to actively LISTEN, not just hear what's being said (or not being said).
For the capital question, there’s also a lot of immigrants in Toronto that may have missed the basic geography lessons if they started school in Canada a bit later.
That's no excuse I had to learn all about Canada when we immigrated to Canada in the 50s and I was only 8 years old
This school isnt in Toronto.
@@renbakes5083 ooh… it’s in Saskatchewan. But same thing! Who knows when they may have gotten there. My daughter’s in third grade and she’s learned about Ottawa, but not sure if it’s discussed in school every single year.
@@celletoronto Yeah, I thought the same thing. Probably a new Canadian, maybe in his first year here.
@@ericwhitlam7517 I also immigrated to Canada as a kid at the end of the 1950s, but I thought Toronto was the capital for an embarrassingly long time.
Tyler , I want you to google " rick mercer asks Americans about 🇨🇦 " Rick is a comedy celebrity here in Canada.
Growing up in Quebec we had split classes. For example they'd split the a 4th class and put the struggling kids with the smarter half of the 5th grade, older kids who were excelling. Each of us 5th graders would sat next to and partnered with a 4th grader and each advanced student would help the younger kids, along with the teacher. I thought it was a good way to do it.
We still have split classes in Ontraio. My son was in one last year. They seem to have at least one class like that for every grade.
And we call it Grade 4 not 4th grade
@@happyandhealthyyou2507 in french its 4ieme
It's only a good way to do it if there isn't an underlying reason that the kids are struggling.
I was one of the kids put in the struggling class despite having a near genius IQ. But the reason I struggled was abuse at home and constant bullying at school. Labeling me as a struggling student only made the bullying worse and made me slip further back
My granddaughter is on a waiting list for testing for autism. Doing this system could delay her getting the help that will actually work for her
Split classes are terrible. Some kids get left behind, some kids are bored, and all kids only get taught for half the day.
In some cases, the students in the higher grade spend their entire year repeating all of the curriculum they learned the year before because their teacher focuses only on the younger grade. Or the other way around, which means the kids and the younger grade are missing vital information to understand what they're being taught.
Not on the topic but I have a story. Went to a drive-thru for coffee this morning. As I came around the corner, there was a parked car sticking out into my lane. I braked and swerved around it and immediately thought of you, Tyler. I had just said " oh, I'm sorry" to a parked car with no one in it. Hi from Alberta!!
I'd like to see the same questions asked in different provinces!😂
Hahaha
Of COURSE you said Sorry to a parked car, you didn't want to hurt its feelings, did you? And we ALL talk to our cars at some point. I say good morning to my car, Snowball (yes, I ALSO name my cars) every morning and it says HELLO to me when I start it up too.
I think that the camera also brings stress for the people who have to answer.
The problem is that many of them are being polite, assuming that he has made a mistake at asking some of the questions.
Exactly.
Very honest and humble answers there with the students saying they were not very smart. That's how I felt in high school. I was good at the English language arts, creative writing and drama, but anything else I really sucked at. At least I know the capital of Canada as well as the capitals of the provinces and territories, so I feel smart after watching that segment.
Problem with the internet is that it is teaching kids that information is more important than knowledge. If you can look it up whenever you need it, you never really learn to know it.
Bro, if you are surprised how bad some of these answers are, you CLEARLY have not watched similar questions being asked of Americans!
I was laughing when he was asking them about the Frank Ocean. Yes, he's a singer. It would be just as funny if he were asking them where the Billy Ocean was. lol!
I learned an important lesson about young people recently. Our lab had to take an online safety course and all the older people scored in the 80s while all the young people got 100%. Every one of the young people Googled all the answers and skipped the lessons while the older people learned the material. I know I could have Googled the answers too but I thought learning the safety material was important to me.
But who will remember the answers?
And this is why "scores" mean so very little. "Street Smarts", Common Sense, Critical Thinking and Creativity - are WAY better measures of Intelligence.
Most "Academics" ~ are seriously stupid.
@@20LookInside12 Most "non-academics" are also seriously stupid.
@@20LookInside12 kinda sounds like your street smarts and critical thinking emanate from your phone?
Thats why we always had to "show our work".
I spent 30 years in teaching. During that time I watched the basic curricula being chipped away bit by bit, by the very institutions that governed the education of our students. My principals would often ask if I couldn't just 'bump' a student's mark up one level. The Ontario Ministry of Education removed Grade 13 back in the 80's, forcing all that knowledge, concepts and understanding of how things work and why they are important, to be shoved into 4 years rather than 5. Then, using Covid as a cover, they tried to put all students into online learning, hoping to cut staffing at the expense of the students. We all know how that worked out. The last straw, for me at least, was the cancelation of teaching cursive script! This was the most egregious move I have ever seen, to dumb down the workforce of the future.
I think we are expecting an awful lot from young people today, considering what they already have on their plate, trying to navigate the complexity of urban, 21st Century life. And I haven't even addressed "social media", dissemination of misinformation, the death of real journalism over opinion (see 'FOX News') and the current culture wars.
All this is just my opinion, having been on the front line for so long. God help us.
You had me until you went after fox news, which I am not a fan of, but the truth is that all journalism everywhere is dead. PBS is trash. CNN is trash. MSNBC is trash. NYT and WAPO transcend the very concept of trash. They are ALL trash.
The death of real journalism over opinion (see 'FOX News')?? I found Fox news to be a lot more honest in reporting the news than the mostly liberal and corrupt MSM.
My HS graduating class was 1999 - I think we got the 'double cohort' in University when OAC (grade 13) was abolished in 2001 or 2002.
I had an awesome English teacher. She did not agree with the chewed curriculum. She taught us punctuation rules, which they do not anymore.
I love "TRUE TEACHERS" thank you 👍
Ontario was the only province that had grade 13. I went to high school in 3 different provinces, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Ontario. In fact, in Saskatchewan, the high school I went to had a split shift semester system. Students from grades 10 to 12 inclusive had classes from 8:00 a.m. until noon and on the days when we had Phys. Ed. it was in the afternoon, with the subjects changing halfway through the year. For instance if in the 1st semester you had chemistry, English, Geometry and History, Typing; in the second semester you might have Literature or French, Geography, Algebra and Physics or Biology and Bookkeeping or Accounting. Some courses would translate better to a full year such as second languages, phys Ed. That course of action was taken because lack of space even though the school was not that old. Ontario of course had the 5 years of high school if you were planning on university or 4 if you weren’t and the typical full time as opposed to the Saskatchewan schedule. Manitoba I was in a private school. Quebec is different again, 3 years high school and then 2 years at C.E.G.E.P. From what I understand it was like going to junior college and then onto university.
I've seen reaction videos from Tyler's brother Ryan where Americans didn't know that the capital of the U.S. was Washington.
The capital of the US is not Washington, it is Washington, DC.
Well when I was in high school, mobile phones weren’t invented, to use a phone we had to go home, and pray like hell the other person was home
In Grade 6 I moved to a new neighbourhood and thus had to attend a new school. The class rooms were pods. One large open room with 2 grades in each pod, in my first year there Grade 7 on one side, Grade 6 on the other. While you were listening to your Grade 6 teacher talking about science you were simultaneously listening to the Grade 7 teacher talking about Social Studies. It’s amazing how much information you pick up sub consciously. I rocked Grade 7.
Well the ones that graduate to higher education have made us the most educated G7 country, per capita. What can I tell you? t🧐
That's One reason why I like Jay Leno. He was always getting the 'Man on the Street' segments on a regular schedule and it was always fun to hear how little most Americans really know about the USA!!!
Frank Ocean is a pop singer popular about a decade ago. But honestly, I had to look it up too. As a Canadian, I am a little disappointed in the results but I've seen videos on Facebook where some guy in the USA asks similar questions and generally the results are pretty bad. It was amazing the number of students that didn't know which country the Great Wall of China was in or who could not name a single country in Africa or know how many states there are in the USA.
He’s an amazing music artist you should listen to some of his music
yeah i've seen that
I was in high school in the 70s and I think if I had cell phones and easy access to information like kids do today I would not be nearly as able to retain information as I did then. There are too many distractions and people know that they can just look up answers so I they don't have to commit it to memory.
We still had to memorize stuff for exams - then quickly forgotten the next day. Do kids not have exams today?
@@j.h.3777 depends on the school and teacher, i'm in high school right now, and none of my teachers do final exams. Instead, we do a project, or our grade is just the average of all the work we've done over the year. we still have normal tests though.
Nice video. High school has been dumbed down through out the years ,but I’m excited for tomorrow is the start of smile cookie week at Timmies ! 😀
Cant wait to get myself a Smile Cookie
Our local towns senior home has been nominated for the funds from the smile cookie campaign here and i am so happy about that
@@xcarolynx2002 That’s awesome! I’ll worry about my diet next week lol
@@Jasper0o0 me too
I have had a dozen or so....and all my grandkids.
Not into that much, but a good excuse since it's for a charity!! 👍❤
When I was in school, we had to memorize a lot of things. Today, no one even tries to remember anything. They just think that if they ever need it, they can go to Google. I think this impairs both their ability to think and to reason. It also requires a lot of trust in Google. How do you question its validity when it is your only source of information? You need basic facts in your own mind to be able to discern truth.
Watching them answer some of these questions as a canadian makes me face palm so hard...
I guarantee you, if you asked the same question of American highschoolers, AT LEAST 99% of them would not know there is no 'Frank' ocean.
Depends. I actually think more American teens would know Frank Ocean is the name of a singer.
The percentage of who would recognize that name goes higher if the population has more Black students.
There’s a reason only one kid and that kid in particular caught that trick question: culture.
I had to look up "Frank ocean" thinking that the French would have called one of the Oceans Frank for France. Just to be sure, historically. Now I am down into a rabbit hole discovering who named the Oceans?
Wrong, Frank Ocean is a very popular singer in the US
Tyler - remember that 1/3 of these kids are immigrants, and many are from third world countries. Their entire education may not have taken place in Canada.
Peace
That is what I was thinking as well.
While true, new immigrant and first gen kids would be more likely to know the answers, however answering correctly would depend on language proficiency.
What make you think they are immigrants? I didn't get accents that to me would indicate language barriers to me. Just because they are people of color doesn't mean they are immigrants
@@sarahmorton4361 statistics.
Hum...not sure statistics are in your favour.
There were 9 white kids presuming you identify white as Canadian.
There were 5 POC assuming you think they are immigrants based on their color of skin.
64%-white 36%-POC
9/16 being POC
7 questions were asked
53 total responses given
34 Whit passing ppl answered 64%of total resonses
19 POC answered 36% total responses
9/34 white passing kids answered correct 26%
14/19 POC answered correctly 74%
The reverse is true for wrong answers
74% white answered wrong and 26% POC answered wrong.
3/4 of correct responses were by POC. If your 1/3are immigrants "stats" were correct and some how that played into their incorrect statements, you are 100% wrong.
1 outlier a random POC thought gravity was invented.
1 white person thought the earth didn't revolve around the sun.....so ya know.
I hate to break it to you but I think your assumption about ppls immigration status or citizenship may be kinda prejudice.
Perhaps you meant assumptions and not statistics.
My friend's son went to into a business program at uni here in Ontario, and to his horror he discovered that the vast majority of his classmates knew nooothiiiiing. They often had to work in groups so it was even worse for him. Even basic sentence structure was asking too much of them. My friend was hoping he would've instead chosen a more interesting program for his first year, like humanities or something, but anyway.
Business school lol!
If fairness, we really don't talk about Ottawa a lot, so it's actually almost a trick question that is meant to stump them. So the kid who had to pause and think about it is a pretty realistic reaction that a lot of Canadians would have
People in canada know the capital.
Yeah, we aren’t as obsessed with our capital as Americans are.. we don’t really care either
I think their minds first went to their provincial capital which explains the delay in answering.
I'm sorry but that's a ridiculous argument. If you don't know that Ottawa is the capital then you never read newspapers, news at all anywhere ( videos etc. ) You must be constantly playing video games or hanging out on Tik Tok.
@@LoudSilences yes, like teenagers do. But most of them knew, it just took them a second. Just like I know, but if someone was filming me and asking me it may take me a second to process becuase it's not a part of my day to day life
The older generation know the imperial system and the metric system. 1 foot is 12” and a yard is 3’ or 36”. Most of the older generation still work in inches over metric. Most of our tools come in metric and inches and the same for rulers come inches and mm.
"gone to the library and read a book" Yeah.. back before they were all banned. Good times.
Building in Canada, ie, framing, decks, fences, roofing, welding,etc. Most of the time we use imperial.( ft. Inches). As an electrician, most schematics are metric. As well as the code book.
Canadians know a lot more about the USA than Americans know about Canada. For one, they think that Canada has States, has a president and we don’t have high populated areas. We teach political history in many countries, not just our own.
there are more than 3 political parties in canada, sometimes it's a bit harder to keep track of who's ith who
last I checked teens don't care about politics
I really enjoyed your videos and comments also learning more about Canada and remembering stuff stuff I forgotten. They use trick questions to confuse mind and to see if there possibly leaders in the future because they are not afraid to question and point out lies or misinformation
I was pleasantly shocked to come across this video of someone asking your typical Canadian high-schoolers some basic general knowledge questions, because I ACTUALLY WENT TO CAMPBELL COLLEGIATE as a youth! I spent Grades 8 thru 12 there 50 years ago and I still recognize some of the areas within the school that they were being interviewed in. Of course, this reminds me of a number of TV programs from the past, where they ask the general public some questions on a variety of topics and see how much they know; like Jay Leno used to go outside the studio and ask people on the street some simple questions in the segment he called "Jaywalking". The people interviewed were , for the most part, extremely ignorant of geography and world affairs and even simple math. Your clip was a BIT different, because there was an element of trickery involved, but still, I would have thought the students would have fared slightly better in their answers. In retrospect, I'm not sure how I would have done in such a survey at that time of my life and under those circumstances. I would agree with you, though, that kids these days are not so much interested in retaining knowledge, for the simple fact that they literally have the world's knowledge in the palm of their hands and if they need an answer to a question, they take ten seconds and look it up. Nobody knows anyone's phone number any more, or even makes any ATTEMPT to memorize a phone number, because everyone you need to be in touch with within your inner circle is either on speed dial or you just press "return", or simply look them up in your "contacts" list. That being said, it is a sad comment on our youth and indeed our society that simple, obvious questions elude the general population. Anyway, your posting was very entertaining and for me, a trip down memory lane and I thank you for that.
People saying this is typical are probably not in high school. Having just graduated a few years ago i could tell you the average student in montreal can definitely answer all of these lol
My dad had Grade 6 German schooling(then there was a war)and he got out and sent to Canada. This kid had to learn the English language and went to work. School was over for him. He learned English on the job working and reading the English newspapers and listening to the news on T.V. The British put out a show called "REACH FOR THE TOP" where one British school team of 4 players would compete against another team. Every Sunday before Walt Disney it was on. (I did not know it was British, as they would use American Schools(I assumed) & questions)
. My DAD blew them out of the water. He knew world geography, world history, etc. He did not know the capital cities of all the states in the U.S.. He did not know all the presidents of the U.S. He did not know chemistry formulas or algebra but as a construction worker he was smarter than any other guy on the job and smarter than those kids currently in school. He never learned cursive writing because pencil and paper was not available when he was in school. Print was good enough for a house painter. He knew the PM of Canada and of Britain. I was amazed at how much he learned & retained AND that he spoke both German or English(he never got rid of the German accent) for he never was trained to curl the tongue a different way to say a word. "Verd" sounds like "Word" in that he did not hear the difference it is so slight.
good for your dad bro
It has been a while since I checked out a video from Tyler but as usual 100% enjoyable.
Public education in Canada has gone downhill in the 25+ years since I left school for sure.
The Earth actually takes 365.25 days to orbit the Sun as you have to take into account the extra 25% every 4 years by adding an extra day (leap year)
Many Canadians for some reason do think Ottawa is in Quebec since it's so close to the border of Ontario and Quebec. The area is often refered to as the Ottawa-Gatineau region, the Gatineau half actually being in Quebec. The confusion goes further because the capital of Ontario is Toronto, however the Capital of Canada is Ottawa, which is in Ontario. Also the fact that the Capital of Quebec is Quebec can add to the confusion. It can be slightly confusing to those learning what's the capital of what. It's similar to the misunderstanding that American's have to where washington DC actually is, considering an insane amount of americans think it's in Washington state, on the north west of america, and not beside Baltimore on the east side.
You know what's bad? I live in Ottawa and didn't realize it wasn't in Quebec until now.
Only if you’re not original from Canada you wouldn’t know
What kind of a response is this? Confusing? Nah!
Every kid that grew up with geography class knows or there not all there lol
Truth.
Just keep in mind that people often use the word "smart" when they actually mean "informed." Being smart is a quality that you are born with. Being informed is a product of education. People also err on the other end of the scale. Stupidity is not the same as ignorance. Ignorance can be overcome with education. Stupidity? Sorry, that is permanent.
Lol okay then…
18:24 *No Tyler, there FIVE oceans, not "a couple"!*
The thing is, High school is not built with trick questions for the most part, you can 100% assume the whole question is right, and every part is something you should know, thus being asked a trick question in that format, would just trick everyone around.
For the "Frank Ocean" one, they most likely start thinking, there is an ocean they never heard about, some new ocean or something, and just get confused.
The only time I had a trick question in all my high school time, was in a physics class, where they wanted you to pull something up, and one didn't have enough height lift to work :/(naturally that was the first option). (but the math worked fine to lift it to the desired height XD).
If you think that every American kid knows the capital of America, you've never watched any of the American videos of kids being asked questions.
I thought the exact same thing when Tyler said this 😄 I've seen some of those videos. Some cannot even name the US president. One even asked "What is a country?" 😶
"mature" Canadians still know inches & feet
This HS is here in Regina Saskatchewan. Not the one I went to but very familiar with it.
Yeah, when I saw the logo, I thought it was Campbell, but what are the odds? Then when I saw Massey Road that confirmed it! My siblings went there for French immersion.
Many Canadians think Vancouver Island IS the city Vancouver, yet have no idea where Victoria BC sits on the map. That crazy curveball of naming a city and an island after a guy that discovered the coast. Throws them off everytime.😂
I've seen a similar thing on TV in the 90's. Kids were thrown off by trick questions, but eventually figured out that was what the guy was doing. He was trolling with tricks after only 2 serious questions. This guy was doing the same type of thing 😂
Watched a video on American teens. They didn't even know how many dimes were in a dollar nor could they tell time on an ordinary clock. Americans are in big trouble!
So you are basing all 340 Americans on a video with a few Americans getting questions wrong.
Well done Tyler, enjoyed it muchly
Never mind what i said before I checked your RUclips channel & is a lot good videos to see just what I like first time I so & watch one of your video today
18:20 Christopher Francis Ocean (born Christopher Edwin Breaux; October 28, 1987), is an American singer, songwriter, and rapper. His works are noted by music critics for featuring avant-garde styles and introspective, elliptical lyrics.
Back in the late 1960's - 1970s in Canada (I don't know if they did so in the U.S.) I.Q. tests were taken alllll the time. Those tests determined how you were 'streamed' - whether academically or into vocational training. It never seemed to occur to them that IQ is a measure of potential not actuality. If you scored over a particular level on reading & comprehension they compelled you to take speed-reading (which ruins reading for pleasure). Took years to unlearn it . . .
Have you reacted to the heritage minutes???…if not, you definitely should…please…
GC here. Plans (drawings) are in metric as well as building code literature but the trades usually convert it to imperial and use feet and inches during construction. High rise and institutional construction may use metric on the job but I am not sure, I've never done high rise construction. 2.52 cm in an inch.
first of all, i just want to say that intelligence and knowledge are 2 very very different things, and I'm from Canada
Unfortunately that has nothing to do with what should be common knowledge. These are beyond incredibly simple questions, for anyone. Kids are not being taught basics anymore. It's a joke.
@@LoudSilences kids are still being taught the basics. Some of them just don’t care. Others are too distracted with different aspects of life to listen to their teachers. Blaming the teachers and the curriculum would just be incorrect
exactly. remembering things doesn't mean smart. Also tests don't indicate intelligence either. at all. debunked for miles
@@branthemuffin5872 as a high school student , most have no real interests in politics at all , still very much children, and many many people just cannot answer math questions right on the spot
Hey Tyler, I think you should start linking the videos you react to in your description. It's just good practice.
The look on the dude’s face when his friend said Quebec 😂 even his voice sounds exasperated
When I was in HS many Decades ago, I had Teachers who would throw in trick Questions like the interviewers just to see who was paying Attention & for a bit of levity in the Classroom.
That was good. My Dad used to test us at the dinner table all the time with stupid questions like how many stamps in a 13 cent stamp or other trick questions on geography or other subjects. haha I wouldn't have fallen for any of those trick questions that kid asked the students when I was in high school.
good for your dad bro
Typical American Tyler, I really appreciate you and your kind curiosity of Canadians. I think you may have alot of Canadians watching you , I hope Americans are watching to. You are giving Americans an education that they do not get in school. I think that we as Canadians get way more American education.
You should do the top 10 most amazing technological things in Canadian History.
Maybe the top 10 Historical things that made Canada.
I would have been ridiculously nervous as a high schooler and remember, it's not how quickly you have the right answer, so long as it is right. The trick questions are like a riddle in the way it tests your ability to think it through first and, that is how we find the 'above agerages'. 😉
It's about time you flipped the script. I would still stack up Canadian high School students vs. American college students,
but the results of this "trick laden" list of questions is still rather sad. I hope the staff and student body of this school
are shocked in to doing something about it. As for the dude asking the questions, really smarmy.
About the mertric système in Canada; we have wholes générations that learned in imperial système and relate to it. Like we still have 454 gr size packadges because we think 1Lb.
I thought that was more because they didn’t want the expense of recalibrating all the packaging machines when they changed over.
A meter is a yard with 4 extra inches.
A lot of sized containers is because of NAFTA.
@@PaigeThePuppet no. I was in the middle of it. until 10 years old we were taught imperial and switched the next year.
@@dawnelder9046 Guess how mush meter in a km? easy. 1l of water wieght 1k
when i was in high school, phone wire wired to the wall
I would have preferred he ask just straight forward questions. One trick question is fine, but multiple ones are basically undermining their confidence in their own answers.
Man I love your videos. If you ever came to Nova Scotia I’d buy you a 2-4
As a Canadian high schooler, i knew almost all of these
adorable and funny video you make my day take care from Québec
Things may have changed, but a coworker of mine and his family were transferred to Alabama in 1995. His two children were in grade 4 & 6 in Toronto. When they arrived and registered at their school in Alabama, each of the girls were advanced two years to grade 6 & 8. They weren't totally happy, because they wanted the girls to be involved with children their age, but also wanted them to be challenged at an education level.
Fun fact, Quebec City is sometimes called the "old capital" because it used to be the capital of Canada (from 1851 to 1855 and from 1859 to 1865).
These people that are hesitating or getting it wrong are new immigrants that couldn’t have been here long , every Canadian born would know the capital, usually know that in elementary or before school, they should be asking people that were born here , it bothers me to have fresh immigrants representing our education system, what would they know about Canada lol
I think the questions are being asked in Quebec. For the student who replied that the nation's capital is Quebec, as in Qiebec City, it would not be unusual. The provincial legislature in Quebec is called the National Assembly, there is a National Library. etc. . The Government of Canada recognised that Quebev constitutes a nation within Canada.
He threw some trickery in there 😅
i didnt immediately know what hexagon was. i had to think about it...for a lil bit lol
I feel like a lot of these would have been answered correctly if there wasn't trick questions... except for the one that said Quebec was the capital of Canada. I feel like the president one is a case of knowing which political party the prime minister belongs to that you don't catch that he said president at least it was for me when the question came up. I was like "oh I know this one...wait a minute he said president and there is no president of Canada." Trick questions are cruel
A hexagon falls under geometry brother.
Maybe the ones that don't know are imagrent kids. Being a 58yr old Canadian, my at the brother who was just over a yr younger than me was CRUSHED when we had to explain to him that the "Star Spangled Banner" was not the flag of Canada. Not that our parents paid to much interest in our educations. Multiple countries around the world have both a President and a Prime minister. Russia is the first that pops into my head but i think the total is like 12 or 13.
In high school we tend to learn what we are interested in and dismiss the things that we think aren't relevant to our immediate social bubbles. However, in high school, in the 80's, I would have known all of those answers except maybe not the political party of the PM... I would have known we didn't have a president, but wouldn't have known the party. We didn't learn politics and I had zero interest in it as a teenager.
Well in the 70s... Most would have known ALL of these answers and laughed like crazy.
@16:21 yeah.....I remember watching a video where they asked Americans on the street to name a country that begins with the letter U. They went through a pile of people who couldn't think of one before someone finally said "United States". But my favorite answer was when somebody said "Utopia". So these Canadian kids might not be the sharpest pencils in the drawer but, ahem.....
Even if officially Canadians are using metric system, foot and inches are often used . Especially with people over the 50 s who were young when they changed the system.
WOW, horrifying. These facts I would have known by Grade four!
I'm a Canadian who went to University in Seattle, Wa. Trust me when I say that a lot of Americans don't know what their Capital city is either...I don't say that to be mean; it's just from my experience there some people didn't know anything outside their home State.
6:28 - Many videos have proven that to be wrong.
8:01 - It's not maths, it's geometry.
17:50 - Yes there is! There's even a Billy Ocean!
19:15 - See? What did I tell you? 😆
It's less funny that she didn't catch that he said "president" instead of "prime-minister" than it is that she thought the NDP got a candidate elected to federal office.
Only a couple of oceans? In the 1960's I learned 4. Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Arctic. Now the Southern Ocean [ Antarctic ] is recognized as well, so 5.
This wasn't just about regurgitating what a government approved text book says, it's about seeing if they can think for themselves.
They are children who only have those text books and ignorant comments online to go off of. Regurgitating is all they can do at this point in life
It depends on which province. We have some premiers who are decimating our education in an attempt to privatize.
I live in a Townhouse complex with 93 units and tons of kids but rarely see any of them outside playing any more. I have lived here for 37 years and in the past I would always see them outside with or without their parents. It's a whole different world and not in a good way.
It’s the opposite here. I’m in a townhouse complex and there are always kids outside.
You have to take into consideration when certain students immigrated to Canada.
LOL : Frank Ocean is a
USA *singer-songwriter and rapper,* last album in 2016. Blonde sold more than one million copies and reached the top spot on the Billboard 200 chart
OMG, every person should know what a "YEAR" is !
The capital of our country is 'C'. The rest, anada, are all lower case.
Lol
That is correct. We use metrics all the time. It's rare that we use inches and feet
Not true at all. Here in Canada nearly everyone in the construction trades go by feet and inches. Most of the tools and building materials come from the united stated and are set in imperial measurements. It's just doing extra math to convert the measurements to metric.
This is the correct answer. Most kids that know anything today about inches, feet, pounds etc., know it because they have bought or seen things with these measurements on products from other countries like the US.
If you follow the news or sports, everyone is described in feet and inches and pounds. Much easier for most to understand.
I have been on hundreds of job sites over the last 20+ years and have only seen metric used one time and it was a pain in the ass.
I wonder if the kid who said “Quebec” was a new Canadian, maybe, because it’s definitely something every Canadian born and raised teen knows. I also wondered if some were reluctant to correct him on the “president” question because it’s not cool to embarrass someone. Mixed in with that was a whole lot of adolescent stress, confusion, and sweet childish cluelessness.
15:05 More trivia to note: Unlike the US's 2-party system, Canada has 4 major political parties (and a few more very minor ones, same as the US does.)
The Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, (a new one named is ) Southern. I am Canadian ❤. Too be honest…I grew up with Imperial measurements and often find metric difficult. 5 cm is about an inch.
There’s a bit over 2.2 pounds in a Kg.
Most of my recipes are still in Imperial.
Now, my grandparents were Germans from Russia and they grew up with metric.
No Southern Ocean, and it's 2.54cm per inch.