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In years past, people would be ashamed of not knowing simple facts, now they think it's funny. God help us all.
About time children were not indoctrinated and brainwashed to believe in a fairytale god too with a kinder and fairer society in its place.
I think in a lot of cases it's lack of confidence.
@@kristinajendesen7111 So you won't be happy until everyone's a faithless heathen like you?
This reminds me of the time we brought our kids on holiday to Virginia. Whilst finishing up a meal in Fredericksburg, the staff were quite giddy that 3 English children (14, 12 & 10) were visiting and took the time to ask important questions like “what language do you speak in England?” The expression on my kids faces is something I will never forget!
Oh boy 😂
@Xlemn-h4r1p Oxford dictionary definition of "Brought" - the very first two lines:
1.take or go with (someone or something) to a place.
"she brought Luke home from hospital"
Clearly, you're confused by the similarity of the words "bought" and "brought". The parents BROUGHT their children with them, on holiday, to Virginia.
@@octaviussludberry9016 Brought is correct English
@@octaviussludberry9016many say brought as influences from Irish English. Both are acceptable everyday use, your use is prescriptive so advisable in formal registers. Not every answer is a clear cut black and white.
I was asked "Do you live in houses in England?"
And the most common one "Do you know the Queen?" Yes. In England we all know the royal family personality ...
First step to wisdom, is realizing how little you know, and doing something about it.
So true. Bless you.
Exactly. There's nothing shameful about being ignorant - we're all ignorant about some things - there's only shame in choosing to remain ignorant when you have the ability to learn (or being proud of your ignorance, as a frightening number of people are these days).
Ignorance is not stupidity.
In the US, ignorance is said with such confidence it becomes so stupid 😂😂😂🏴
“Part of me is hoping he slipped them a little money to act stupid”…..30 seconds later….”he didn’t have to pay anybody, I take that back” 😂
I watch your videos from the start and it still makes me smile at how much you have grown in confidence 😊
JP, you should definitely remake this video. It would be a great piece of research.
Maybe ask teachers the same questions. After all you have to start somewhere.
You can lead a horse to water.
The lecturers that teach the teachers!
"We wish the best for them because they're chronically addicted to tiktok" Hahaha :D
I love your frustration at their answers! :)
You should definitely record your own edition of this - with Ben!
"If you're driving 60 mph and you drive for 1 hour, how far have you travelled"?
European answer: "Well, 96 kilometers, 560 meters and 64 centimeters"
thats 1.14^7 barleycorns
How many London buses is that?
@ Around 9500, depending on the model. Don't you learn math in third world countries?
In their hands, they have a phone (constantly). Connected to that device is All Information Ever. Not knowing isn’t the stupid part; not caring is.
As a young boy aged 3 back in the 70s, I use to walk to my Nana's house with my Dad every Sunday past the Mississippi pub here up North in the UK
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Not only could I spell it forwards but also backwards by the time we first walked home.
Spending real time with your kids will always teach them more than any device will about the world.
I always walked and talked with my children, both now grown, one a Masters grad the other embarking on her PhD.
"M I double S, I double S, I double P I
I P P, I S S, I S S, I M"
Obama Care cracked me up 😂
As someone who isn't American, I have to agree. I have no idea what is being taught in schools in America - but DAMN
In my late 60s now,born and bred here in the UK, I remember learning to spell, Mississippi when we were in infant school, and we sang a song to sing to help us remember it 😂
Same in the Netherlands. I can still spell it perfectly.
@@gertvanderstraaten6352 Brit here too, we learned it as a rhyme that was spelled forwared and backwards, it's something you never forget. Difficulty was another one that began Mrs D Mrs I and so forth. I"m almost 60. those were the days.
Me too. At 68, I still can't get mi double s, I double s, I double pi out of my bread box.😅
@@TimHarris-n8u Inconsistently, we used to say Em Eye Double Ess Eye Double Ess Eye Pee Pee Eye.
same in Australia
I can see you dying inside, with every answer LOL
The guys and girls in the mall weren’t window shoppers they were window lickers. 🤪
I could understand if the questions where remotely difficult, but some of the questions had the answer in the question.
In the UK, we learned how to spell Mississippi by saying - M I SSI SSI PPI
'Annie' knew how to spell it.
we were taught " mrs m mrs i mrs double s i mrs double s i mrs p p i " that was in the 1970s
Whilst I agree with your assertion that there are a lot of Americans who know things (you're a good example), it seems that Americans like this are very easy to find.
Wow, Orwell really saw this coming.
You have the cutest giggle and laugh in hisgory btw. I just wanna give you a hug!
Sadly it's often the same here 🇬🇧 now. There's a guy on here who goes round asking the most simple questions and many haven't got a clue.
I would say that the school curriculum is very tough now though so hopefully things will improve. Juniors are taught things that we didn't even cover in senior school. Many senior schools, for ages 11 to 18 are called academic colleges now too.
I would have loved it but I was taught in a state comprehensive in the 70s where we didn't have the funding or equipment that they have now.
There is another guy that does these sort of videos on different campuses around the USA and all the results are the same. BUT he does show a small minority that do get every question right at the end.
A lot don't know how long a quarter of an hour is or how many dimes in a dollar!
The way we were taught to spell Mississippi:
M,I, double S, I, double S, I, double P, I. 😃🇬🇧🇺🇸
There was an American exchange student at my school (Syd, Aust).. I can't remember why... but he taught me that exact method...
And to this day (I'm 50) I can chant off that spelling immediately. Like I hear "Mississippi" in any context and I'm chanting M,I, double S, I, double S, I, double P, I..
Amazing what useless info my brain has retained 😆
Yes, there was even a song with those lyrics in the '70s.
I'm from Scotland and we were taught how to spell Mississippi around 8 years old and it was MI - SSI - SSI - PPI. Still very easy to remember and I'm now 56
Same, I'm 52 and was taught the little rhyme of how to spell it
60mph for 1 hour - How far? - 2 hours. Gold
A Scotsman who loves your videos always honest and balanced I bwlieve and hope the majority of Americans are like you rather than the overplayed negative stereotype. Keep up the good work.
Who fought in the civil war .....Soldiers......You cant argue with that !! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Totally valid answer it's true.
Go & do it Joel.😂
Raised in Oz: we learned how to spell Mississippi using the song: Mrs M, Mrs I, Mrs SSI, Mrs SSI, Mrs PPI. Seriously!
"What colour was Napoleon's white horse?" "Who's buried in Grant's tomb?" God help us; future leaders of the free world - ya, right! Run away Joel. The US doesn't deserve you!! Cheers, John in Canada
As a child in he UK in the 1960s I knew M I double S I double S I double P I was how you spell Mississippi, it was something that was chanted in the playground.
Funnily enough as a British school girl, we spelled out Mississippi as part of a skipping game we played..M I Double Es, I Double Es, I Double PP, I. So every 9 year old in deepest Lincolnshire, who had no idea where it was, could spell it fine...lol
I think you'll find its M I double S I double S I double P I
@michellewalpole lol..yup I stand corrected, I was tired.. but thanks :)
Love these, keep em coming
The guy saying "yes" when he should have said "no" reinforces their stupidity.
He basically got fed up in a lot of them where he said they were wrong, told them the correct answers, and they just argued that they were right to him . . . So, he just ended up saying yes to them to save on all the hassle he was getting with them . . .
I’m Australian, but when I was in school, we studied world history, and we learned to spell that river with a poem:
Mrs M, Mrs I, Mrs SSI, Mrs SSI, Mrs PPI.
We also learned Mahatma Gandhi and Toyohiko Kagawa. I still remember those even though I finished school in 1967!
Me too
Joel, please please PLEASE record an anthropology video like this. That would be brilliant 😂
Yes Joel please do make your own video.
But please, do not say „yes“ to wrong answers. It is sugarcoating, nobody will learn anything.
It would be interesting to see how many questions your president would get right?
Well, he does know that Belgium is a beautiful city, doesn' he. 😂🤣
Or the defeated candidate. Harris isn't exactly a rocket scientist herself. The Democrats didn't even hold a primary. While you can blame the Republicans for electing a crap candidate - who do you blame for the moronic car crash they stood? Those clever men on Wall St..
Thanks for that, I just spat my tea. I genuinely doubt he could point out the USA on a globe.
@@teejaydiscombobulated2724He couldn't point to America , on a map of America.
He wouldn't even understand the questions. He is stupid af.
Don't take the blame on your own shoulders. We know it's not your fault.
it's actually the same more or less allover the world not only in the US (i'm from Romania and it's not that far off, same for other EU countries), it's the day and age we live in ... people just don't read books anymore and they don't care for things that don't matter in the daily life
Vox pop can be very entertaining & revealing especially when asking for opinions on topical subjects. I think your laid back style & genuine interest in people would make great viewing. Go for it !
It says more about our educational system than it does about them.
It's the thought process that baffles me. Not knowing the answer, to formulating an an incorrect answer, then the questions they ask to defend their answer.
I would love to see you make one of these :D Also it isn't your fault Joel for the dumb things being done by those in power; in fact I feel really bad for Americans like yourself who are frustrated and will get lumped in with idiots by some.
All the best, mate.
The correct answer to the 69th president question is: "I don't have a Tardis, so I don't know!"
I always laugh (or cry) at their videos, but I sometimes think they might edit out the ones who get the questions right. However it's still sad that so many are so ignorant. I think if they asked some of those girls about the Kardashians they mighta got 100% correct, which is again very sad.
Pot. Kettle.
I had no idea you've seen Only Fools & Horses! I can't disagree with you about its greatness!
I like David Jason but in my opinion every other programme he did was better than Fools & Horses. Open all Hours was my favourite.
You should definitely go out and do some of these in person videos.
what is obama last name? Obama Bin laden i think...HA hA Ha
As a Brit child we thought we were clever to recite the chant off by heart Mississippi spelt....
M,
i double s,
i double s,
i double p,
i.
In spelling tests words necessary, pneumonia and tsetse (fly) often came up for some reason.
I remember singing the Mississippi in Australia as a child. I am 67.
DAMN!! I'm a boomer and I can name all 7 continents without a problem!
(I sat in the front row in 5th grade, just a few feet from the world map which was permanently pulled down in the front of the classroom.)
The one with the British Empire in Red?
@@etherealbolweevil6268 NO!! I'm NOT that old!
My 7-year-olds knew all 7 continents, which ones were cold, hot and temperate, before they left my class (Year 3 here). Also, how to tie their shoelaces. From Yorkshire
That should be 8 continents, you forgot to count Yorkshire.All the best.
What's Obama's last name? CARE. I think (hope) that girl was just taking the piss.
Hang in there Joel
Jps yes go do your own street interviews
Hello Joel. I met some lovely folk in US on my three month tour. Imagine you in York.
The "Silver War" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Dude hasn't even heard of the Civil War.
What you should fear most is that when Joel is retired and putting his feet up...these poor lost souls will be running the country. Thankfully I'll be dead.
As a 71 year old English woman who has never travelled far in my own country, nor ever been to the US, (but once went to Italy by trains, a ferry and a coach, when I was 13 - with my school) - I can tell you that I am _hopeless with figures_ as have the numeral* version of dyslexia (dyscalculia*) ...but I _can_ spell:
'Mississippi' ...I learned it by saying:
"Mi _double s_ i _double s_ i _double p_ i" ...
How did _you_ learn to spell it, Joel? :)
Just for fun, my Mum used to say, “Missus M, Missus I, Missus S S I, Missus S S I, Missus P P I. For Newcastle, she’d say, “Missus N, Missus E, Missus W C, Missus A, Missus S, Missus T L E.
I think doing your own survey of general knowledge amongst the youth around your campus is a great idea. It might be interesting (and make life easier for yourself), if the questions you ask are sourced from a European general knowledge standard test for a specific age group - though I'm not sure how low you should go! To be fair, I would suggest you try to avoid geographically specific questions, and aim for broad global knowledge, though it may well lead to disaster/embarrassment.
To cast a critical eye over US education standards, I think it would be really fascinating to compare their SATs with how they perform in your questionnaire. Best wishes.
40 years of defunding education and this is what we get.
This is SO INCREDIBLY SHOCKING. No wonder Trump got voted in. I would be ashamed if these were my own children. 😢
The world is no longer shocked by the lack of ignorance of Americans. You know you are tragic, and you don't even care.
I’d love you to do videos like this.
6:24 'take a guess.'
'Korea.'
one is almost inclined to give him credit for knowing a country like Korea exists if he is completely oblivious to everything around US independence.
Only fools and horses really is UK's most loved series
It is so painful watching these films. Do they teach ignorance in the US or is it just natural?
PISA test * 2022
Participating countries: 81 - Comparison USA/Canada/Europe selection
Mathematics (in points/place)
Average: 472 / Best: 575 (Singapore)
Estonia 510 (07) / Canada 497 (09) / Netherlands 493 (10) / Ireland 492 (11) / Denmark 489 (12) /
UK 489 (12) / Australia 487 (16) / Finland 484 (20) / Germany 475 (24) /
France 474 (26) / Spain 473 (27) / Italy 471 (30) / Norway 468 (32) / USA 465 (34)
Science (in points/place)
Average: 485 / Best: 561 (Singapore)
Estonia 526 (06) / Canada 515 (08) / Finland 511 (09) / Australia 507 (10) /
Ireland 504 (11) / UK 500 (15) / USA 499 (16) / Denmark 494 (19) / Germany 492 (22) /
Netherlands 488 (25) / France 487 (26) / Spain 485 (28) / Norway 478 (32) / Italy 477 (33)
Reading (in points/place)
Average: 476 / Best: 543 (Singapore)
Ireland 516 (02) / Estonia 511 (06) / Canada 507 (08) / USA 504 (09) /
Australia 498 (12) / UK 494 (13) / Finland 490 (14) / Denmark 489 (15) /
Italy 482 (20) / Germany 480 (21) / Norway 477 (24) / France 474 (29) / Spain 474 (29) / Netherlands 459 (35)
Trust me every country can be made to look like this. Nobody goes around other countries and edits the worst answers. I'm damn sure fleccas deleted the good ones from all his quiz videos. People do anything for money.
@@PowerfulVillain of course every country can be made to look like this. It's just nowhere as easy as in the US
At primary school the teachers had an A4 stamp of every country in the world (or so I thought). What an over excited learner I was. If
I was on detention for my indiscretion in class (perhaps due to my under stimulation), I was a frequent flier. The penalty would be a stamp of a foreign country (GB, South Africa, Canada, India). Appending on the transgression, it would include 20, 50, or 100 placenames for the appropriate country. I had to label this number accurately on the print in order to get out of detention. Even though I spent almost all of my life in Oz, my knowledge of geographical place names like Vientiane is pretty good. Some people get addicted to all sort of stimuli. Mine was learning.
@11:11 in the UK were taught a rhyme. ‘M-I-Double S-I-Double S-I-P-P-I’
You definitely have to do a remake of this.
And trumpski is dismantling the department of education 😅 😅 😅 in the UK in the 70s we were spelling Mississippi at junior school (age 10)
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
It explains why America is the way it is
Nah, these people don't vote
Jps, There are newer videos that show questions like this being asked of university students in America and they are just as ignorant. Those videos were filmed on the campuses of the universities .
I am Canadian and we learned to spell it in school: Mississippi
But you also elected Trudeau so what are you so smug about?
@ you elected Trump. God help you my American friend
The horror on your face on Y-E-S 😂
Yes do that!
As a child, growing up in the UK in the 70s, one of our skipping games was to M I double S I double S I double P I. Did anyone else do that one?
Robots without their brains 'plugged it'. 👀
At primary school (uk) we would turn it in to a song.Mississippi.Ippississim.
Yes do it. Let us see how thing've improved in the past 3 years.
I am absolutely schocked to hear how many americans don't know about time zones and don't even know that their own country has time zones 🙄 The vast majority of americans don't know the analog clock 🙄 They don't understand the 24-hours clock 🙄 They don't know what the thirteen strips in their own flag represent 🙄 They don't know which countries borders their own country 🙄 They can't do simple math 🙄 They don't know who their first president was 🙄 They don't even know that different continent exsist 🙄 They still belive Europe is a COUNTRY and think we speak Europaen here 🙄 Americans have asked me if we have Internett in Europe 🙄 They have asked we have trains, cars, an american asked me if we have glass in our windows 🙄 They have asked if we have pizza, spagetti in EUROPE 🙄 They have asked if we celebrate christmas, halloween and easter......All of them are EUROPEAN culture and tradisions...Americans actually belive they invented easter egg hunting 🙄 and they belive they invented Santa Claus 🙄 They have asked if we have AC here, beacuse so many americans have been in maybe 4/5 Europaen countries and that means that the whole CONTINENT of EUROPE don't have AC 🙄 Here in 🇧🇻🇩🇰🇫🇮🇸🇪 We do have AC, but here in 🇧🇻🇫🇮🇸🇪 We have someting much better, we have heat pumps....Air-to-Air heat pumps 🙄 Americans think they invented english 🙄 Americans ask Europaens why we don't celebrate the 4th of July 😂 It is absolutely hilarious wacthing how ignorant, brainwashed and delusinoal americans really are 🙄 And i know my english is not perfect....
Some people are shy and would not think well in front of a camara. A lot of maths is done using pen and paper in schools and so they are not good at aural work. When training to teach maths in the 90s I was told not to do so much aural work because there was no proof of work having been done! People do panic and guess.
My attitude to some of these questions is, don't you watch tv or films set in other countries?? So much information.
I doubt they have the attention span to sit through a film.
Message for Jole, I was in Tesco, West Bromwich, Birmingham, looking for a meal deal ......
I noticed when I was in there that they have started selling Tim Tams!!!!!😋😁🤑 LOL
I'm British, and I learned to spell Mississippi at school!
The problem is, people have the worlds Knowledge at their finger tips and they spend their time watching tic toc videos, people have become so insulated if things do not directly affect them it didn't happen.....
I'd love you to do your own video with questions like these. I suspect he's edited out the right answers and I think you'd give a more realistic view.
I imagine most Americans know all about the Kardashian’s.😂😂😂😂😂
Or guns, American cars and American movies.
The amount of Americans I have come across online that think they know everything about other countries they’ve never travelled to is insane.
Whether it’s about food they’ve never tasted or wars they’ve never heard about. They know more than those who have experienced it.
You’re right, ignorant.
Or they want to discuss American politics when the clip is about a show set in the UK, and are surprised when people object because "it's all over the news" (but not our news).
More than anything, I feel desperately *sad* for these youngsters. Sad that not one of their teachers wanted to teach and inspire and give knowledge to the children they are supposed to be teaching. Sad that their *parents* weren't interested in teaching their children, teaching them how to learn, encouraging them if they have a favourite subject.
Teachers are either ignorant themselves, or they believe that knowledge is too valuable to share, whereas knowledge is *worthless*. It only becomes valuable if you share it with someone who didn't have it.
The wee guy who said everybody aint wrong america is always pickin a scrap with someone 😂😂
As a really old Canadian, Mississippi is spelled MISSISSIPPI. I can’t tell the jingle that we used to spell that. It has to be spoken. I think every Canadian child learned to spell Mississippi.. I can’t believe that Americans can’t spell it. I’m beginning to understand why Trump is disemboweling the Department of education.
I’d love to watch you conduct your own survey.😊
The guy who answered that he didn't know who the 69th POTUS was is technically correct because no one actually knows. 😄
I think someone needs to add more budget to the education department. Its a shame when people don't know about the rest of the world, but when you don't know your own country its pitiful. General knowledge is not shouting louder.
I'm English and we learned to spell Mississippi forwards and backwards in the school yard, ippississiM.
At least aliens won't attack us.
I used to hang out at the mall. I was 13.
If they can't even do basic arithmetic, they don't stand a chance. U.K. does their multiplication tables from about 8 years old.
PISA test * 2022
Participating countries: 81 - Comparison USA/Canada/Europe selection
Mathematics (in points/place)
Average: 472 / Best: 575 (Singapore)
Estonia 510 (07) / Canada 497 (09) / Ireland 492 (11) / Denmark 489 (12) /
UK 489 (12) / Australia 487 (16) / Finland 484 (20) / Germany 475 (24) /
France 474 (26) / Spain 473 (27) / Italy 471 (30) / Norway 468 (32) / USA 465 (34) /
Thanks for defending them. Someone has to!