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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 ...
Ignorance is not stupidity.
In the US, ignorance is said with such confidence it becomes so stupid 😂😂😂🏴
I watch your videos from the start and it still makes me smile at how much you have grown in confidence 😊
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).
Obama Care cracked me up 😂
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!
I can see you dying inside, with every answer LOL
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.
"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!
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.
"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?
60mph for 1 hour - How far? - 2 hours. Gold
Wow, Orwell really saw this coming.
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.
Joel, please please PLEASE record an anthropology video like this. That would be brilliant 😂
As someone who isn't American, I have to agree. I have no idea what is being taught in schools in America - but DAMN
“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” 😂
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"
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
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.
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!
Only fools and horses really is UK's most loved series
At primary school (uk) we would turn it in to a song.Mississippi.Ippississim.
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.
In uk we learned how to spell mississippi with a ryme at like 7
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 used to hang out at the mall. I was 13.
I remember singing the Mississippi in Australia as a child. I am 67.
I’d love to watch you conduct your own survey.😊
what is obama last name? Obama Bin laden i think...HA hA Ha
You definitely have to do a remake of this.
I’d love you to do videos like this.
Robots without their brains 'plugged it'. 👀
Hello Joel. I met some lovely folk in US on my three month tour. Imagine you in York.
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
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.
You have the cutest giggle and laugh in hisgory btw. I just wanna give you a hug!
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
Raised in Oz: we learned how to spell Mississippi using the song: Mrs M, Mrs I, Mrs SSI, Mrs SSI, Mrs PPI. Seriously!
I'm British, and I learned to spell Mississippi at school!
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.
I get what you are saying about people hanging in malls etc,
Butttttt the same fella also did a good few at colleges,.....the results looked shockingly the same so they did
Jps yes go do your own street interviews
Love these, keep em coming
Hang in there Joel
@11:11 in the UK were taught a rhyme. ‘M-I-Double S-I-Double S-I-P-P-I’
40 years of defunding education and this is what we get.
We old folks had to learn, because we couldn't Google it. Atlases and encyclopedia sets were hard to carry.
Yes Joel please do make your own video.
But please, do not say „yes“ to wrong answers. It is sugarcoating, nobody will learn anything.
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.
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
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.
I can’t agree as the curriculum in schools is poor in comparison to when I was younger, however, there has to be some ownership on the parents too. Can’t just blame the school-my kids have learnt a lot just from household conversations and dinner time. Too many brits eat dinner on the sofa watching tv. Parents spend less time with their kids & allow their devices to parent instead. Parents need to take ownership!
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.
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 !
They can't even speak properly.
They all sound stoned 😂
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.
Yes do that!
JPL.... PLEASE go out and do one of these on your own. Teach something as you do.
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 .
Most people they ask get the questions right...they just don't show those.
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.
What's Obama's last name? CARE. I think (hope) that girl was just taking the piss.
Have you watched Dad’s Army and Fawlty Towers? Or for more modern British comedy, The IT Crowd, Extras, Black Books or The Inbetweeners?
All the best, mate.
I think the same applies here in UK
i had an american say she was going to report me for putting on pirate accent . i am from somerset england if you know you know lol
in germany all this people will work at the handycapt workstations
And trumpski is dismantling the department of education 😅 😅 😅 in the UK in the 70s we were spelling Mississippi at junior school (age 10)
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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.
There's a rhyme, learned in school, UK - M, I, double S, I, double S, I, double P, I. Never forgot it! Lyrics of Mississippi Delta by Bobbie Gentry.
Pretty sure that people have better answers if they’re prepared for a minute and inow that they have to answer a few questions. But holding a camera in your face and ask questions out of nowhere might be very confusing
The correct answer to the 69th president question is: "I don't have a Tardis, so I don't know!"
You should do some vox pops ...city versus rural areas. See if there is any difference in peoples general knowledge.
yes please do your own version of this! and also tell us the ratio of wrong to right answers. The dude from the video obiously leaves out all the ones who do give correct answers, for the entertainment factor.
Lovely jubbly!
Why do the participants laugh at being unable to answer?
I'm English and we learned to spell Mississippi forwards and backwards in the school yard, ippississiM.
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 . . .
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.
The futures bright
In UK we learnt as children to spell Mississippi as a children's rhyme.... [ 'mis-si-ssi ppi']
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.....
The "Silver War" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Dude hasn't even heard of the Civil War.
Would be interesting to see how this improves with closing down the dept. of education 😂😢
It is so painful watching these films. Do they teach ignorance in the US or is it just natural?
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
... in a country where you have to pay to go to school! :-(
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
Hey mate I have no doubt you can find these people in any country!
Joel I blame the additives in your food. The poor education system 😢
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
The wee guy who said everybody aint wrong america is always pickin a scrap with someone 😂😂
We were spelling Mississippi here in the playground aged 7 ,in Scotland with a game of jumping ropes. But it is difficult if you're trying to spell it out in your head eso if you're shit at spelling in general
saw one last night. Question was what century are we in... He answered " Earth". Do it Joel.
There’s a lot of similar UK vids. They let them vote and breed and everything.
The horror on your face on Y-E-S 😂
any 10 year old or younger should know most of the answers to these with the exception of the president ones. I am in Australia.