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How America got so Stupid
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- Published on Apr 21, 2025
- And why American culture became everything, everywhere, all at once.
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I have no idea why RUclips has only rendered this in 720p, hopefully it fixes itself but otherwise just pretend it's 2010 or something.
weird
what do you mean? it is 2010!
mines stuck in 360p💀
im watchin in 4k
America is horrible the geography
I m a German and was once asked by an American if Merkel was Hitlers daughter. I said no and very kindly asked why she would think that. And it is because European countries all have kings and kings pass on their power to their children. Democracy, that existed only in the US in her world.
Sadly, democracy only exists in Switzerland
Нужно было ей сказать, что кайзера сверг его внук Сталин.
if Merkel was Hitler's daughter!.............. hmmmmm I've often wondered the same thing. 😂😂😂
There is actually a maga cult conspiracy theory that she is Hitler's granddaughter. Not because they think it's like a monarchy, but because qanon and maga have made everything into some nefarious plot full of hidden relatives and all powerful Jews whose whole existence is built around lying to "good people with the right values".
It's exhausting.
@@TokeyIto1865 funny thing is the american election system makes sons of former presidents more favourable to be presidents too (happened twice in their miniscule history) so thats kinda dumb cus in europe thats a big nono
When my friend went to the US, as a german end of the 90s, he was asked if we already had cars in germany. He just answered: "Yes you drive them."
Did you see this comment?
@laidback08-nv4pt. 11 months ago
I was an exchange student in the USA in 1991, Spokane WA, Ferris High School. My favourite questions were like: "do you have cats in Germany?" and a bunch of other questions that basically centered around if we lived in caves and how much we admired the US? Until a fellow US student stepped in and said "yeah. they dont have electricity over there! they only have candles. And by the light of those candles they draw, design and manufacture all those Porsches, Mercedes, Audis etc." That sure helped to shut up that guy.
😂😂😂😂😂
Typical american mindset of "We invented everything and everybody else are poor peasants".
@@shapelessed Truth is: Many smart people live there and funny enough: The smarter half of the US, is probably the most multicultural in the world. US is full of extreme contrasts somehow...seems to tier them appart.
@@bAtACt1X very cool grandpa, lets get you to bed.
As an American I'll tell you how, in very simple terms. Our public schools have been terrible for generations. And it was far from accidental. The rich and powerful in this country do not want a well-educated population.
It largely depends on where in America you live. In some cities the public schools were excellent. For example NYC had some top level public schools throughout most of the 20th century. Even today it has some excellent schools such as Stuyvesant High school. The Bronx high school of Science to name a couple.
@WitchidWitchid The vast majority of public schools in this country suck. Even the ones that people would call good tend to do a poor job of educating kids when it comes to history, civics, and critical thinking.
Yep, I agree. While there are still some exceptional public schools that offer quality education, many still fall short of providing what people once called a "well-rounded education". This is not only true in the public schools but even in the private school sector. When my parents went to public school back in the 1930s Civics was a part of the curriculum along with Geography, History, Litterature, Art, etc. Good luck finding a Civics course these days. If I named a country my parents (and even my Grandparents) could immediately point it out on a map or a globe. These days you see high school, and even college graduates who can't even point out where the major European countries are. Or even where Canada or the United States is locate. I wonder, did they stop teaching any Geography these days?
Well, I guess if the rich don’t want it, we can’t handed it. No one could work together and try to build networks of education, good information systems / news reporting agencies, etc…
@WitchidWitchid And there's the rub. Cities have resources, rural areas don't. As a result, there's an educational desert outside of Metropolitan areas, because small communities don't have the tax revenue of larger ones. It's all about the money.
I can tell you that every time the US goes to war or spends a shit load of money, the US government starts cutting on the education budget, and the teacher's salary stays low. This has been happening for decades, no wonder US education sucks
People now clapping like seals while D.O.E. gets abolished
@@mr.philosophyThanks Urban Dictionary: Now i have a picture in my mind of people having sex making seal noises.
@@mr.philosophy it was a long time coming with the downward spiral OG mentioned.
Yeah, it's more important to install dictatorships in Latin America to stop the communists !
Teacher salaries and school budgets do not equate to better educated students
Honestly, as an American, I feel like a lot of people here are becoming proud of how stupid they are. You see it everywhere on social media
Idk why you're using media as a source. It's full of biases and stupid people.
Praise invisible sky 💩
Especially in Republican, conservative, evangelical, and homeschooled circles.
Yes, b/c it is a willful ignorance born of hate. For many of these people, this is the first time they have ever been "in the club," instead of on the outside, looking in. Their insecurities and prejudice now celebrated, instead of shunned. It's scary AF.
@@cpaul9269 I cannot agree with you more
As a brit, my first week living in the US was eye opening. I went to buy cigarettes at a gas station and the card on the counter said anyone born after 1999 cannot buy cigarettes. I was born in 1998. the 50 year old lady at the counter told me she couldn't sell me cigarettes because 1998 is lower than 1999. I literally thought I was getting pranked.
Ok, so that woman lets a newborn buy a pack of cigarette but not you?
@@lesinhhung6999 after 5 minutes of me and her manager explaining that she finally understood
Lol
@@Aluben0wow I almost can’t believe it but I’ve encountered people just as stupid in my life too
@@blakepurdy1214 this happened like 8 years ago but it always stuck with me as I pass that gas station every day
In fairness, knowing who the British prime minister is at a given time in recent years isn’t an easy question to answer.
Sorry Liz. You had a good run.
"Aw shit, who is it this week??"
also who really cares?
Swachum suchwami?
Why would anyone care? Britain is still a large player in the world financial markets but that is about it. That country is far less relevant than the average person thinks.
Sick & twisted society - a felon can't get a job at McDonald's BUT you CAN be the President of the U S of A - good one.
That's terrible - what's Donald going to do when he leaves office?
Felons cant vote for president either, BUT CAN BE ONE?!?!?
@Also admires pdf-iles and hangs out with them.... YOu8 know that saying.. "if it quack like a duck its going to duck your other ducklings"...
Are you a convicted felon and can’t get a job? Just become President!
Well this aged like fine wine. 70 million of them woke up and decided that a guy who once suggested injecting people with bleach would make a great president.
"But I'll bet you couldn't even answer the last five questions. I'll bet you couldn't, they get very hard, the last five questions."
-Trump, after supposedly taking the MoCA, a test that is commonly used to detect cognitive impairment and signs of Alzheimer's...
Huh.
Spoken like a true idiot. Because only a moron would vote for left-wing policies and four more years of the dumpster fire the current Administration created
And was the best friend of Epstein…
@@joshuablevins4340
Oooof. and you are still parroting literal corporate disinformation from years ago and manufactured hysteria/consent.
THIS is exactly why American's are so stupid.
I work as a tour guide in Buenos Aires. Many of my guests are from USA, they tend to be friendly, but I have to focus things quite differently. Less intellectual, sometimes from the very basics, more about "world records", and walk much less.
But the thing that frustrates me the most is when they don't show interest in authenticity and prefer USA focused activities, like going to McDonald's instead of a traditional local restaurant which is cheaper and nicer.
True. And then again, when I was working and living in Egypt and UAE in the 90s there were fast-food places ... especially so in UAE where, incidentally, obesity has increased dramatically in countries such as UAE, Qatar, KSA. Shame. KFC was BIG thing to do when I was there. Personally, went to good Lebanese restaurants.
walk much less lol
Just emphasize the cheapness. Eventually, it will sink in... 😵💫
@@beeoo9722 It's a concrete jungle man. The cities and towns in the US are so poorly designed, riding a bicycle is a chore. Theres little to no bike lanes, its a risk to even ride next to cars. To get groceries you ALWAYS need to drive (even if there was a locally owned store nearby, its not like people would shop there anyways, cant give up your precious, corporate-owned Walmart). There's barely any shade, having a tree in your yard is considered a risk where I am, so walking in the summer is a heatsroke waiting to happen. Not to mention the horrible culture surrounding cars, trucks are bought simply to boost your ego, not for hauling anything. People are assholes on the road.
This American prefers the reds of Mendoza to any fast-food crap any time.
because the US is so regarded as the land of freedom, people don’t actually stop to think that the whole thing might be just a façade.
The freedom to be a serf to your corporate masters, that's all they have over there.
bru that’s with everything in the world😂
@@ur6jah so?
Where are you from lmao?
Y'all Aussies and Europeans want American freedom.
@Julia3455-r5l go watch your American football bro
I’m Canadian and lived in the US and I was asked on multiple occasions to speak Canadian. It’s just ridiculous sometimes.
Répond-lui en français. Le Québec fait partie du Canada 😉
You want me to speak in Candaian? Okay!
*Frenglish*
America and Canada basically have the same culture they are blatantly dumb
Maybe they meant Canadian French 😂
@@Kurameno That's French Candaian
As an American living in Asia, I find myself routinely embarrassed about the fact that I come across many non-native English speakers who can properly speak and write in English better than most Americans do, even when their native scripts use a non-Latin alphabet.
Britons aren't well known polyglots, and even most English speaking Canadians can't speak French with any proficiency. It's a result of speaking the prestige language. The French didn't learn English in the 1700s.
Also an American living in Asia. This same thing used to bug me more than it does now but I understand if Thai was the world language and English was only spoken by 70 million people I would have been speaking Thai before I left the US.
Well literacy rates in third world countries are higher than those of Europe/America so just keep that in mind
I the same in Arabic countries not to mention from the Indian subcontinent where there are many scripts. And then there was Thailand and their script. Challenging.
@@josepha.r5839 the nice thing about Thai is you can see a word and know exactly how it will sound unlike English
You would expect Americans to be very educated about the world, given how they are involved in so many foreign affairs.
Edit: perhaps the reason America can get involved with so many foreign issues is BECAUSE its population is mostly ignorant by design. A country that big, you have to find some way to wrest control. Like an ant colony.
Very true.
Ironically it's the other way. So many foreigners who've never been here or really spent a lot of their own time researching it seem obsessed, while the Americans are fine in their ignorance and honestly don't usually don't talk about any nation that they don't share a border with.
Everyone is worried about us. We don’t even think about y’all
@@Stephanie-mv9iy Kind of ironic you say this despite it being a generalization. The peak of ignorance is speaking about a nation of nearly 332 million people and assuming they are all this stupid. The US population most likely eclipses your countries population many times over and the amount of highly educated and globally connected americans also most likely far surpasses the amount of your educated countrymen.
For the record I'm a dual citizen of the US and Australia [have lived more than a decade in each] and I'm in the top percentile when it comes to higher education in Australia [6.8/7 GPA in computer science and a OP 2] and likewise I'm very well-read [originally was going to be an historian if it paid more] and also have travelled to many countries.
I guarantee you are far, far more ignorant than I am and yet you have the audacity to generalize millions upon millions of people as a testament to your own ignorance.
We live in a country almost the size of europe, with 3 different time zones, why should we care about the world?
The USA chooses to have a two party system, forcing their people to be one or the other, no middle ground. That seems quite stupid to me.
Not really true. There are so-called “third” parties in the US (e.g., Geen, Libertarian, Constitution, Natural Law). Unfortunately none of those has any real impact on our political system, as the Republican and Democratic parties are clearly dominant, and have been for over a century. This does put us in a position of voting for “the lesser of two evils” most of the time.
It’s not really a choice, but we’re forced to. First past the post voting almost always leads to two major parties
It's the natural progression and outcome of how the election laws work. Change the election process away from first-past-the-post and that will change. With first-past-the-post systems you can't really vote on "feelings"' but instead have to vote on strategy if you want to win.
There used to be little difference between the two parties. At least now it is extremely obvious who the supremacists are.
im pretty sure there is a divide like this in many other countries, but the difference between them and US is that well..the other parties than the default two actually have a decent shot at winning not only presidental elections, but also seats in their parliments. And that translates to having an actually well balanced and relatively healthy goverment where one side wont have massive advantage over the other at a given time.
As a foreigner watching american news like Fox and MSNBC i was amazed by just how partisan the media is. They will say and do whatever that makes their party look good and diseregard any nuance or intepretation. Its very hard to find information that isn't biased and allow for any critical thought. No wonder america is so divided.
That seems the case with most media also outside the us. It sells
@@davidzwitser Outside of the US, there's often state-affiliated media (not state-governed, mind you), that is available to all members of the public and tries to be as informational and educative as possible.
@@goldschuss2496 The US equivalent of that would be PBS.
@@davidzwitser No. There are countries like mine where the news is strictly about reporting with no opinion columns. In fact news channels here pride themselves in not having editorial content and opinion columns and market themselves as such.
Never watch either one. Don't have cable, don't have satellite. The NBC-based family of 'shows' have been lunatics since inception. Fox used to say 'We report, you decide' something the other networks never even pretended to get close to.
The problem isn't so much the widespread ignorance, as it is the arrogance with which they claim to know everything better.
... which in return can be called ignorance, no?
Well said 👏 👌 👍
@@linat.1726 Yes, but having limited knowledge isn't dangerous unless you thing you are really, really, really the smartest person in the room.
The last ten years of Trump lunacy has confirmed the appalling truth that over half of America's population are complete and utter imbiciles.....they regard his statements of intent as declarations of accomplishments :
Trump :"I'm going to do amazing stuff, I know more about amazing stuff than anyone, you won't believe how amazing this stuff is going to be, I can do amazing stuff better than anybody.... it's tremendous..."
Trump supporters :"Trump Has Done amazing stuff, he knows more about amazing stuff than anyone, you know we couldn't believe how amazing that stuff was, he did amazing stuff better than anybody, it's tremendous...."
Yes, the moto America is number one, we are the best and most free nation is just ridiculous. Then people wonder why we have a huge migration issue. Well you said we are the best so…
In 1935, Sinclair Lewis wrote:
“ When fascism arrives in America, it will be clothed in a flag and carrying a bible”.
With the Orange Antichrist holding it upside-down.
nothing resembling the statement "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross" appeared in that book, or indeed in anything else Lewis wrote during his lifetime.
And although it sounds like a sentiment Lewis would have agreed with, there is no evidence he said it
Wow. If that's a real quote its prophetic.
He wasn't wrong tho.
And now it’s Nov 5 , 2024 and we just elected a fascist. He pushes bibles with his name on them and humps our flag.
Man , i had a conversation with a American girl that when she realized that I'm Brazilian, she started to ask me how i learn English because she thought that i didn't have internet or that i lived in the rainforest, but when i said that i never ever visited that rain florest because is so far from my state , she said: " so , you are not from Brazil", like , she thought that she knew about Brazil more than me , who always live here. And i met someone online , in Omegle, a few years ago that said " how are you a Latina if you are white?" , and i started to explain that latina america is so mixed, specially Brazil, because we have all types of people here and everyone, not matter the country, can look like a Brazilian duo to the mixed population from europe , Africa, asia and natives America, and he said that i was lying because the US is the only place that has a mixed population and i give up
Americans live in those lies, and Trump is only spreading them more
Lol
Americans are some of the most top-nit idiots out there.. I'm saying that as a brit who lives in america currently, I can not stand their cockyness too, thinking they're better than everything and anyone. Some of the people I talked to think England is its own country by itself, and it's bloody annoying, honestly.
Some of them become functionally deaf when faced with a foreigner whom they assume knows no English but who is speaking to them in clear fluent English. Then they tend to have a vacant look on their faces and respond with "Huh?"
You cannot reason with these folks because they are fanatically convinced that they are right.
As an italian I can say that, when I was living in Florence as a student, there was an event caused by 4 american girl tourists I couldn't even think as possible. The local newspaper reported those girls managed to set a whole house on fire because they were trying to cook some spaghetti for the first time.
They thought no water was necessary and threw the pasta directly in a pan. I still don't get how it escalated to that point.
They've clearly never been to Olive Garden 👀
This never happened
@@Shep_isLessThan3👁👄👁
A hahahaha 😂
I have the answer for you. STUPIDITY. You just made my case.
You forgot the dumbing-down of the American education system--taking civics classes out of schools, as well as music classes; instituting "teaching to the (standardized) test" policies that ignore specialized knowledge, and book banning to remove any literature that is in any way controversial (Bradbury, Vonnegut, Salinger, Steinbeck etc.) If you want to get a well-rounded education in some parts of America, you have to do it largely on your own.
Yep, and it's getting worse. I graduated high school in 2004 and in my 12 years of schooling, I had one world history class. My nieces and nephews that have graduated in the last 5 years didn't have even one- and half of them went to private schools!
As non American: SALINGER IS NOT IN SCHOOL PROGRAM???????
I still can't get over my American cousin telling me when she went to college she majored in biochemistry and did a minor in soccer!!
@@teimy42 Too much cursing. Not kidding, that's the reason 🤦♀
@@Libbathegreat what the fuck
I was on an Air France trip to Sweden, I spoke French to the Hostess asking for Orange juice, The Swedish woman next to me asked where I was from, I said America. She was baffled. Then she wanted me to know she has never met any Americans speaking any other language but English in her experience. It is easy to impress with the bar set so low.
Americans don't speak other languages because of the opportunity cost concept. Time spent learning other languages is less time spent learning something else. Take an engineering student. What's a better way to spend time? Learning more about engineering or learning foreign languages?
@@Anon54387 Yes, but a second or third language is preferably learnt way before you reach that level of academia. And picking up additional languages early on helps you out with learning in general.
@@bananrepublik8 I don't speak French fluently and I wish I was taught at an early age as you've said but our education system does not value languages over other skills in the curriculum.
@@Anon54387 How about learning before or after being an engineering student or even as an engineering student converting free, spare and leisure time into "foreign language time"? I watch videos and read comments in both English and French without being my mother tongues.
@@Anon54387What about learning engineering in a foreign language?
In 2001 i worked in the USA, and in the morning of "9/11" i was talking to my then wife on the phone and during the conversation she told me something was going on in USA, i asked my colleagues to check and we realised the drama going on, we worked in a large office with a lot of suppliers from different parts of the world, we where all shocked by what was going on, we run to Americans and told them, but they didn't react at all, just looked at us and continued working like it was nothing, the day after we, (Europeans) was met with extreme hostility, Americans hold their fist up in our face telling us they should get us, "we are member of NATO" I said, anyhow, there is something wrong with Americans, there is something lacking in how they see the world
An American tourist found out that German time is 9 hours ahead of USA and she asked why they didnt warn them about 911
@johnmudd6453 - hehe! It's unbelievable, I was at a party and ended up talking to an American lady, according to her she had relatives in Denmark, and since I came from norway she thought I may know them she asked me, and then a man standing next to us interfered in the conversation asking us what was the purpose in travelling to Europe, he had been in Las Vegas, and they had everything, pyramids and all
As an American yes large percentage of us are very stupid, i got into a legitimate argument with a coworker because he didn't think trees were plants, i asked him what he thought they were then and he didn't know but he "knew they weren't plants", took a Google search and 10 minutes of explaining plant taxonomy to finally convince a 35 year old man that trees are indeed plants😑
Is he unfer 70? I think so.
bruh that guy is so silly
You did your job
I thought there will be a plot twist that your coworker said "it doesn't produce electricity thus it's not a plant"
@@fadhilyudistira8819 Or cars...
To be fair, asking someone who the British prime Minister was in 2022 was a bit of a moving target!
The cabbage or the other guy?
You forgot the lady... You know, the one that after she met with the Queen, Her Majesty died a few days later? Made me think she was an evil witch or something...
@@thenachofan7677Diz Trust or something.
Ha. GB is like the Walmart version of the USA
@@NinerEmpire5x Dude, I’m an american too, but I gotta say, they have a much bigger history then us, and I would quite like living there.
I'm a British immigrant who's been in America for six years now. I work remotely and my team used to have general knowledge quizzes every week, sometimes for prizes and other times just for fun. I'm honestly not boasting when I say my manager stopped doing them because I was winning every week.
The only questions they would beat me on was popular modern US culture like music TV and films. Some of the answers they gave to other questions were ridiculous.
Thank you for not calling yourself an "expat". In the UK it has a completely different and snobbish meaning.
@@batcollins3714what does it mean in the UK?
Sad, but true.
@@Mogamishu same as immigrant but for the "better" people (aka western europeans).
For example, a Pole moving to UK for work is an immigrant, but a Brit moving to Poland for work is an "expat", even though at this point economies of both countries are comparable (Poland is still a bit behind reaching around 80 to 85% of British economy despite being an independent country for like 34 years, but economists predict that the average household income of a Polish family will be higher than its British equivalent by the end of this decade).
As someone who spent years living in Britain I have to say that although at first I thought nothing of it, it has a racist connotation, or a classist one at least. "We're not like these dirty eastern europeans or indians coming here to do minimum wage jobs noone else wants to do, we go to other countries to do real intellectual jobs!" type attitudes.
I've lived in Bavaria for the past 32 years (if you're American, that's where Walt Disney built a castle 🏰).
I wouldn't call myself Expat because I keep that term for the thousands of Brits who have emigrated to Spain and imported their entire British lifestyle with them. I know some expats that can hardly speak a word of Spanish after 30 years of living there!
5 out of 10 Americans believe chocolate milk comes from brown cows, you can't blame this on the cinema.
Wait is that actually true? Like seriously seriously? Do people actually think that?
@@iamagirl9938 Not in such large number as the guy above says, but yea there was some people actually beliving in that
I was an exchange student in the USA in 1991, Spokane WA, Ferris High School. My favourite questions were like: "do you have cats in Germany?" and a bunch of other questions that basically centered around if we lived in caves and how much we admired the US? Until a fellow US student stepped in and said "yeah. they dont have electricity over there! they only have candles. And by the light of those candles they draw, design and manufacture all those Porsches, Mercedes, Audis etc." That sure helped to shut up that guy.
its called humor, look it up
Gott in Himmel!🤣
Hahahaha.😄
Oh, it's really hard for me, a Chinese people, to imagine that even German friends would be discriminated😅Germans enjoy a good reputation in China.
@@wednesday567 Unluckly it is a normal serious thing every foreign student expirenced in the US.
Danish guy here. Iv had Americans be mad at me because I laughed at them, after they asked me if I knew any Vikings.
you should answer "yes, you are looking at one!!"
@@zymelin21 And then never left the house again after because that is cringe
MAGA thinks your country was named after a type of pastry.
@@paradisepipeco and democraps think there are more than two genders
You should also tell them Denmark invented more than just Lego. Like for example... Insulin (they're gonna love that one), loudspeakers, Google Maps, the dry battery, the name for Bluetooth, and of course the pastry that allegedly might not actually be Danish but you might as well take the fame.
I'm a Romanian studying in the US. Almost everytime I'd mention I'm from Romania, they would ask me one of the following:
Where is Romania?
What's Romania?
Wait, Romania is a country?
Oh, where's Romania in Ohio?
Wow, you're from Africa?
So you're communist?
Where is Romania in the US?
And when I'd mention I'm from the Transylvanian region, they would immediately ask me about the Hotel in Transylvania movie. Some even debated me if Transylvania is a real place.
Romania is definitely where I am relocating because the US isn't for me anymore. Also, I would recommend you go back to Romania or go elsewhere like Canada, Italy, and Hungary because the cost of living in the US has skyrocketed.
@@TheRecklessMetalhead canada is not much better
@@tusharsharma8952 Yeah, but safer than the US, to be honest.
You seem to like saying Romania over and over again.
@@Steveman27 Someone must be an American
I am Dutch and had the privilege to travel a lot. Never in my life I was so glad to be back home and swore on everything to never go back as when I went to the USA. The arrogance on top of the utter stupidity that made me so enraged was just one of the many things that made me run out of that hell hole.
Whenever i visit the us i cant wait to get back home
Try Israel. I've really, really travelled and it's the only place I truly hated. At first I thought it was because I was a tourist, but locals I gor to know told me, no, rudeness, arrogance and trying to rip everyone off is normal. I told to be rude and aggressive back. And it worked??
@@awa865That's about the same story a friend told about the time he worked in a kibutz and later construction. The rudeness and the trying to rip you off part at least. He went there with an open mind, and came back disliking Israeli's.
I am born and raised working class American, but also an MSW (which took me till age 51 to achieve) and white. I’ve been embarrassed for 60 years by Americans’ absence of humility, respect, curiosity, integrity, insight, and presence of arrogance, STUPID entitledness, lack of consideration. I intentionally stayed away from people with these traits and live among the common descent people. I apologize to the rest of the descent people of the world for my compatriots’ narcissism.
@@awa865makes sense considering the Israelis literally got their manual for colonialism from the US and Canada.
It’s the mindset of a colonising nation that has deluded its citizens into believing it is just through endless propaganda and othering.
My mum has also travelled, myself a bit too, and she has said Israelis, specifically the men, are some of the worst people she’s ever met.
I went to buy beer once in Merica. Bill was for 27.50 in total. I gave her a 20, 10 and 2.5. She was confused why. I had to explain to her that my change was $5. She couldn't understand why. She insisted pay with credit card and I refused because i didn't have one on me. She threatened to call the cops because I was being difficult. 🤷♂️
why did u give the 2.5 tho? by mistake? (ik the total change is 5 bucks but still asking)
@vishvaanbu9455 Are you REALLY ignorant about why the 2.5 dollars were part of the sum tendered? Because, if you are, you are suffering from the same lack of awareness as the woman in the liquor store.
(The person buying the beer was deliberately being kind ... in giving denominations that were EASY to give change for, and that would leave plenty of SMALL CHANGE remaining in the till for ease of giving change to customers later the same day.)
@@vishvaanbu9455He probably wanted to. Have a $5 ha he and get rid of the 2.50.
Idk about the police part lmao but when im on the register (im irish) and someone does that, it breaks my rythme and i have to think very hard about whay im doing because im no longer in my flow lmao, you just forget how to do simple maths somehow even tho i did higher maths in school
@ I totally get that. specially the younger generation is so used to doing cashless payments.
Last year I was in Italy on holiday, I'm Australian. An older American couple approached me to ask for directions, which I gave them. They then asked me where I were from and I said Australia. They looked very surprised and the woman said "Wow! you speak English very well" I was so suprised I couldn't even respond
Bet they were thinking of Austria
Us Auzzie's are Multilingual.
We Speak Australian, American and English🙃✌️🐨🦘🇦🇺
@@browndogprospecting3141 ha Auzzie with a septic twang instead of Aussie
She lied. How did you get into Europe anyway? Been building a secret underwater bridge? Water ski across, on the backs of a couple of drop bears? I went to Australia once, to get a flight to NZ 🤣😂🤣 Thanks for Ozzy Man, he's cool. Much love from the North of England where we speak proper. 🤭
Bruh moment
I worked on a military base for a while and would somewhat regularly get foreigners training on US soil for a few months. When I'd ask them where they were from, most of the time they wouldn't want to tell me because other Americans had never heard of Latvia, Moldova, Albania, Thailand, Indonesia, Jordan, Ethiopia, etc. It was kind of disheartening.
Yes, and I applaud you for using your freedom of life and speech that millions of people died for in WW2 to allow you to be able to choose the Democrats because you believe in looking after yourself as a citizen in the USA. I understand why Obama and the invisible monsters in the Swamp and all Democrat voters must stop President TRUMP from getting control again. He may be able to thwart or even eliminate their plan to destroy the USA as a global problem against their GREAT RESET by 2030, But I don’t understand why the Demon-crats open Border makes no sense to me? Unless they want to destroy the Country’s sovereignty as part of the Globalist Great Reset Global Government by 2030, the USA will be known as District 10! And Australia will henceforth be known as District 8! The WEF chairman Klaus Schwab said in the Great Reset there will be 12 districts governed by 12 Global Government Princes and one supreme Emperor (this sounds like a movie series we watch, right. But this plan to rule the world has been in development for over 60 years, so the Videos are just a warning of our future. I didn’t think that the USA was so deeply involved in the transition from democracy to serfdom, but the actions of the American Demon-crats indicate this is also their dream of their future. Just like China, so, what’s really going on? Global Mass migration is designed to eliminate the Sovereignty of individual Countries; this has always been part of the planning of the WEF=UN=WHO globalist MONSTERS towards their GREAT RESET by 2030. Globally, the other UN government TRAITORS identify themselves with their slogan "Build Back Better". The same thing happens here in Australia under the UN-Australian Labor Govern mess. You have your traitor, Joe Biden, and we have Labor (our Demon-crats) Anthony Albon-sleazy, a true UN Puppets and TRAITOR against the Aussie people.
Do you know what is actually stupid? Wasting time learning about things that are neither enjoyable nor serve some sort practical purposes in your life. I don’t benefit any by knowing world geography and I’m not an anthropologist, so therefore I’m not particularly interested in learning about foreign cultures unless I’m planning to visit them. You’re line of thinking is implying that someone who writes code is stupid for not knowing how to rebuild an engine and vice versa.
@@davemccage7918Are you responding to a different comment? I didn't call anyone stupid.
Interesting. You need to consider Geography before coming to assumptions about it though. Our brothers and sisters across the pond don’t know our 50 states. Sure, why should they? They’re not countries. However, they’re as MASSIVE as many countries. This much radius makes room for a lot of space and culture within our own country. Nobody here is learning about small countries that have little influence on anyone else because they offer nothing. There’s many nuances to why “Americans seem dumb.”
@@blondieofusa probably replying to you, since it's about some complaining about "world geography" or whatever.
As an American, hard to disagree with anything here. Nicely done. We’re in trouble.
McDonalds stopped trying to sell their 1/3 pound burger because Americans could not understand that 1/3 is bigger than 1/4, since 4 is bigger than 3.
nah what :D
They are some of the dumbest people i meet honestly. Not all but the majority.
Lol so they would think that 1/4 pound is bigger than 1/2 lol.
It's true.
Yes, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. In this situation, knowing that 4 is bigger than 3 is the cause of the problem.
@ they didn’t learn about fractions. They just teach kids to pass the test or exam and not really know what they doing.
“What used to be an American only pay-to-win awards show is now an international pay-to-win awards show” bro completely demolished them.
Yeah I laughed out loud at that one 🤣
Cannot understand your point, sorry.
Once flying back from Tasmania to Melbourne there was a bunch of very cold underdressed Americans boarding the flight. They had found it a bit cold in Sydney and thought that by flying south to Tasmania it would be like Florida - wrong, a little matter of knowing which hemisphere you are in makes a big difference.
Now that's classic.
Cold in Sidney?! Really? I thought they only have a few occasional subzero (celsius) days in the winter. Hmm... can I qualify for being American then?
@@jmi5969absolutely freezing during winter, especially in the old homes that not only have any heating options but if you do find a way, the houses don't hold heat for too long, if outside it's -1°c inside it's a nice 10°c
@@jmi5969 it's not very cold in Sydney. You are correct.
@@gon_a_iIn South Africa its same, it can get to -5⁰C in the winter
I think that most of the Americans dont know that cyberpunk 2077 was made by a polish studio
Or that GTA is Scottish.
Cyberpunk was made in a chemical factory? "polish studio"
to be honest thats not something that is commonly known lol. like you have to play the game and know who the devs are to know that
@@HolyCrusader5 judging by how some americans think poland is a nazi country (we were opressed by nazis if you dont know) it isnt a common knowlage
And i still hate them to this day having the balls to also release it on the ps4. That game had more bugs than an ant colony.
As an Algerian, my American friends ask me what or where is Algeria, I thought that was fair enough since it's not a really well-known country, so I tell them that it's a country in north Africa, and then they ask me this question that always frustrates me: "If you're African, why are you white?" and yes I am indeed white and ethnically 100% African, and for some reason only Americans asked me this question, people need to understand that not all Africans are black, and Africa doesn't mean "no water" "no technology" "only dirt".
And for the Americans reading this, no Algerians did not conquer Africa, we are originally Africans, the same goes to Moroccans, Tunisians, Libyans, and Egyptians, and yes Egypt is in Africa.
Unfortunately Americans only know Africans as sub-Saharan Africans. Very simplistic view of things as you say.
Yes, but don't tell them it is also in asia. It blew their minds 🤪
@@margretblaswich6229 There’s 340 million Americans, calling all of us uneducated idiots is really fucking stupid.
Tell that to the people at Netflix and BLM.
Because no matter what they teach you at school, remember that Cleopatra was black. ;-)
how did you survive in africa ?
I think it's worth noting that a major reason only 40% of Americans have passports is because no US state has paid vacation time and some even lack unpaid vacation time. Even then, the time usually allowed is no more than two weeks. "But what about the gap year?" You may ask. Well, no such thing exists in the US as all university degrees require four years of study, including 50% general and elective studies outside one's major, instead of the three years required in the UK.
And that's not even factoring in the lack of increase in real wages that's been plaguing the median American worker for the last twenty years. Finally, there's the proximity issue. The US is big and far away; the distance between New York and Los Angeles is equal to that between London and Baghdad; I'd be curious to see figures for the percentage of Europeans who have traveled that distance from their own homes in their lifetimes. And given the financial and time burdens I've already mentioned, most Americans don't even see that much of _the US itself._ I've visited 30 US states plus DC, and I'd venture a guess that that's more than most of my countrymen.
tl;dr most Americans have neither the time nor the proximity nor the disposable income to be able to travel for leisure.
wish i could bookmark a comment
40$?
edit: he fixed his comment but it first used to say 40 dollar sign
What the hell is a gap year?
You made some great points there Sam, a few I'd never considered. Thank you.
As for Europeans that have travelled as far as London to Baghdad, well in 2003 I drove London to Baghdad. It took us three weeks, though we did a weird route and stopped off in some nice places.
A passport is also good to have for proving citizenship. For example when getting a new job you typically need to forms of ID to prove you're a citizen, but if you have a passport you only need that single form.
I just want to say, as a poor kid that grew up in the Southern US.... this place is pretty much exactly what he said. Yall have no idea the frustration i felt as a kid being able (at the time) to actually name other countries i wanted to visit only to have people look at me like i was speaking some ancient forbidden language.
It's getting better t
As someone educated in private school in the Northeast and now a resident of Texas, I can confirm your pain. Its like being in Stupid Land. Come to Texas and just watch how Texans destroy all the trees on their land....in a place where its hot as hell and the Sun burns hot enough to give you skin cancer and these morons and tearing down ALL the trees they can get their hands on...the epitome of stupid and thats just scratching the surface you need to see how their home made tool sheds look, horrendous, like Pebbles and Bam Bam built it. Also Texas leads in accidents where idiots cannot patiently wait for the train to cross on the railroad tracks so they risk crossing the tracks as the train is coming.
@@evansnyamesah1755is it?
Hope you managed to 'escape' even for a few days, to see your desired destination.
I have a... fairly slow friend, who has never even left the city that we are living in. I was describing the town I was living in before I moved there, and she couldn't even identify the interstate that runs through it on a map. And let's say we have political differences.
I'm an American who traveled the world for work. I taught my child about countries and cultures and am teaching my little grandson now. However, I'm not saying this is common. The rise of fascism in the USA proves the growth of willful stupidly here.
I think it's important to mention that not all Americans are stupid. Just the other day I met a guy who could count to 5. Truly inspirational.
That would not have happened if he only had four fingers! 🤘
😂😂😂
You'd have to be stupid to think everyone thought every American was stupid ... wink ... sorry couldn't resist
And not all Brits are obnoxious. But many of them are.
@@tenchi586this vid ain’t about the brits 😂 it’s about the dumb dumbs
As an American, I have never been so offended by something I 100% agree with.
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Chapeau for such articulated and ironic comment Sir 😄
And what is that?
LOL
As someone who is also an American, yes, I can agree!
For real. Kinda ironic, though, that he used “reading the news paper” as being informed. The news paper tells the truth about 47% of the time
I'm Japanese, but I lived in the U.S. as as kid.
One day I was eating lunch at the school cafeteria, munching on an rice ball my mother made for me.
An American friend of mine came over, seemingly excited, exclaiming "Sushi! Sushi!"
I told him calmly that sushi is made using raw sliced fish and vinegared rice, whereas the rice ball I was eating at the moment was neither.
My friend responded with, "No, no, no! That's definitely sushi. You're eating sushi."
It remains to this day a bizzare question why my friend thought he was more informed about Japanese food culture than the Japanese kid in front of him, but as I grew up and got to know more about U.S. culture, and met more people like him, I gradually learned to just deal with it.
i am surprised that such people even say it as a statement that they are right even if they know very little about other cultures
I'm amazed at how many Americans can't pronounce Japanese words correctly. They say "Pokey man", "sakky", "mayn-ga", ect.
"Yo, that's some pretty cool sushi!"
"It's not sushi"
"SUSHI! SUSHI! SUSHI!"
How old was this kid??
Did he get that from watch 4kids dubs of anime
As an American who finally traveled to Europe, it's actually so tragic just how isolated and closed off we are from the rest of the world's culture. There is something to be said for the varied landscapes and communities across this big-ass country, but it doesn't even compare to the wealth of new experiences that crossing the Atlantic opened my eyes to. A genuine "Wow, it can be better" moment for me.
Everyone SHOULD travel across the border and the sad reality is that a lot of people just can't afford to, either because they don't have the savings, the connections, time off work, or ability to plan.
As an American, I can confirm that my IQ is in the negatives.
The fact that I’m even literate is a miracle from god
nice username bro :)
As a non American I'm offended at the implication that I can read
Well this video is about ignorance, not IQ...
@@tiamabderezai5374i think you dont count the immigrants
I can't believe Americans have a monopoly on ignorance and won't save any for us non-Americans.
In Europe, a common joke is..."What borders on stupidity?".............."Canada and Mexico."
Nah y'all should be grateful to the US for handing your arses during any minor conflict, europeans suck at that
Fantastic! I will copy this.
Muy bueno
Kinda obsessed😬😬we have no jokes about u guys 🤣✌️
What- I don’t think it’s that common since I’ve never heard it…
They're not just ignorant. They're wilfully ignorant.
Worse. They absolutely refuse to believe that some dumb high-school dropout with a conspiracy theory doesn't know more than the consensus of the international science community. It's the REFUSAL to become educated because "I'm just as good as that perfessor" that constitutes American anti-intellectualism, as noted from de Toqueville onward.
Arrogant. It's embracing the Dunning-Kruger. Americans have been told for generations that they are superior in every way. It was a response to the Cold War but it has proved to be incredibly toxic.
I would say they're proud of it
@@James-kv6kbat this point, we Americans should start to go on the Internet and talk shit about your nation and you to see if you like it
Brainwashed. For over a century, the very best propaganda our owners could produce. It’s our number one export.
No wonder they had to find a reason to rid tik tok, Americans absolutely hate losing business to another country. Insular is the fitting word that sums up this land.
Unfortunately, ignorance has become a symbol of American patriotism.
no one is as dumb as Kamala. and AOC...😂😂😂
Ignorance has a very close relationship with the extreme patriotism that drives the MAGA crowd and presidential hopeful.
We didn't Colonize the World for greed.
@@amramjoseyeah, it's called Trumpism. Patriotic to our British forefather's and their constitution. I don't get it either, don't really care for the superiority complex that plague's the British society as a hole 😮.
Not really
When in graduate school my adviser once said to me: "Stupidity is the combination of ignorance and arrogance. You can be gifted and stupid at the same time." He was trying his best to avoid calling me stupid, but getting me to pay attention to a wrong assumption I was making about an experiment. I do my best to avoid forgetting that embarrassment, but it really helped me understand my weaknesses.
Ever heard of the Dunning Kruger effect?
@@wingdingfontbro maybe unintentional, but the brevity of your comment make it sound crass.
what he was recounting is the opposite of the Dk effect, in that he recognized his mistake.
@@wingdingfontbroirony of the dunning-kruger effect is that it isn't what people say it is
It's my policy that all people are stupid at least some of the time. We let our guard down and make mistakes even when we know not to. So if something isn't going how you expect, take a moment to reevaluate what you're doing and what mistakes you might be making.
@@brmbkl oh, my apologies. Looking back now it does seem a bit brash and blunt. Thanks for realizing I didn’t mean it that way. I was commenting on the quote “Stupidity is the combination of ignorance and arrogance. You can be gifted and stupid at the same time” as it reminded me of the DK effect.
This video is unfair.
As a non American, I can be stoopid too, it's my God given right.
it's in blood of americans jk
Stupid is ok.. Never go full Murican tho
bro were talking about an entire nation not. individual
@@Itchybol I'm as stupid as a million if I try. Who are you to stifle my dreams?
We all know God only gave rights to the Americans, they have the monopoly on God given rights.
I'm a photographer from pakistan and once showed my work to an American. He was like " wow you too have birds in your country".
That person should be president, clearly the smartest of the lot.
I’m an American who was raised mostly outside the US. I always thought that because the US is such a large, diverse country that sure there are a lot of really dumb people, but also a lot of smart people. After going to college and working in the US, I have a more nuanced view. I’d say Americans, in general, seem to only value knowledge that is specifically relevant to their work or their hobbies. Anything else (often including history, geography, and foreign cultures) is completely neglected. I’m an aerospace engineer, my colleagues are generally very intelligent, but a lot just don’t know some basic, general knowledge that anyone with a high school education should know. One was going to Alaska and thought it was an island another thought it was part, not just connected to but actually territory, of Canada! These people have advanced degrees!
It's only "neglected" because we're not taught how important those facets are, _particularly_ if you go to a Public school, especially if you grew up in the 2000's.
We spend 12+ years having information stuffed into our brains, without being taught why or even if that information is important, as if data is all that matters - because thanks to testing requirements, it _is._ What really matters isn't just learning what you learn, but learning _how_ you learn - something we never, ever teach children.
To be fair, knowledge of math and science is much more important than knowledge of geography and history most of the time.
@@SierNotsruhtIf all you care about is making money, sure.
This is a result of the education system. Pretty much every system in Europe (for better or worse) crams more subjects into the curriculum. Russia has ~13 per year, I understand US has ~7.
This makes students have a wider range of knowledge at the cost of some depth (though I think it's better since most of the depth is forgotten after final exams anyway, I assume this is true in the US too).
US lacks one cornerstone of the education system.. the Pub Quiz.
As an American, I’m completely offended.
As an American, you’re completely right.
HEY! I was going to say that.
@@malcolmboynton7652Except you weren’t smart enough.😆
Not really. This has been a trope ever since I was a kid in the 70s, when my teacher would talk about how the pope spoke three languages, including English, and we don't know one word of Polish. This is because America was THE dominant culture and English was one of the international business languages, along w/French. None of this is our fault and we can't be criticized for not speaking other languages or knowing other cultures because we were the leading culture and language. To be sufficiently cultural, we'd have spend all our days studying hundreds of other cultures. Are we supposed to have time for that???? Which ones do you all deem so important that we need to know about? Meanwhile it's quite obvious why everyone knew who Michael Jackson was. Stop blaming Americans and start looking into why this all played out the way it did.
@@matsumoku1it's your countrys fault for being so emperialistic becuz of money
Felt like a sucker punch to the nads, when I realized as much well read as I am; I would have failed those questions. 😢😢😢
Fuck
Asked an American for their views on Euthanasia and he told me that - "they need to stay in Asia and stop taking American's jobs..."
Wow. We are not all that stupid here.
However, it saddens me that so many are.
"Youth in Asia" 😂 that's hilarious.
Ja Ja! 😁
You have to be joking surely ?😅
@@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812 Oldest joke in the book.
Well the US ambassy in Italy refused to give me a tourist visa just becouse i have a friend in America that is a " girl " they told me that my purpose to go in USA was'nt to visit but to marry and live there ...i have my own house and + really good payed job a jewellerin Switzerland with a salary of 6000 US dollars montly, That was the dumbest thing i had in my life from a Ambassy ignorance.
I am indian. I have met some europeans who knew more about my country than I did. Europeans in general are very cultured people. They learn about other countries politics and history. Then I met some americans who thought that India was in africa and asked me if rode a camel to work.
Ngl, I laughed out loud. Riding a camel to work is crazy 💀😂😭
@@Isaacqhz Tell that to a guy who gives tourists to the pyramids in Egypt camel rides.
Too funny. I can hear it them now, mistakenly mocking you in what they thought was an Arab accent, calling you a “raghead”, etc. Yup, we have some real winners here in the US. And it’s not getting better, it’s getting ridiculously worse.
@@davejacobs9042 Tbf, I've had racism from both conservatives and liberals. The only different is that liberal racism is more subtle and covert. Whereas conservatives will openly say it to ur face.
Bro I’m from the hawaii, yenno, the 50th state of the USA. I’ve been asked if we speak English,use US dollar, if you need a passport to visit, needed a green card to work(Im living on the mainland) if we had Walmarts or Wi-Fi… I could go on and on. AND THIS IS A STATE APART OF THEIR COUNTRY!! Most Americans don’t care and hardly know much about their own state. Good luck with another country.
As American, I never thought myself particularly smart. Sure I went to college, but I never FELT particularly intelligent or well-informed especially compared to some of my more intelligent peers. I figured I was perfectly average, maybe a tiny bit above average if I really was feeling up to overselling myself that day.
I've since realized I was selling myself short. After graduating college, having worked jobs in 3 different fields, I actually feel incredible frustration at how astonishingly, incredibly and INSANELY stupid and uninformed so many other people are. Not in like, specific "smart-people stuff" like specific history topics or higher math or science or specific obscure laws or anything. I mean in absolutely basic "Elementary School children should know this stuff" kind of things. Like how US citizenship works. Like how vaccines work. Basic math. Basic reading comprehension. Lack of ability to recognize basic patterns or use basic reasoning to figure out a task or issue.
But the cherry on top is the complete apathy - no, the complete disdain for curiosity, learning and intelligence. It's one thing to be dumb; no one is born smart after all. It's another thing completely to have a complete and total lack of interest or initiative in changing that, and another worse thing still to actively view with suspicion or disdain others who ARE curious and try to better themselves and broaden their knowledge. The confused looks I get from coworkers when I read a book during lunch just because I want to just seem so unreal. They straight up say they don't understand how someone can "Read just because".
These are people much older AND somewhat younger than I am too.
To realize all this must be a mark of intelligence.
You are spot on the mark. It took me until I was 35 years old to realize that not only was I as smart as most people, I am miles ahead if a large percentage of Americans who don't even realize how ignorant they are.
AMEN! And very well articulated!
Alas, book-reading has always been a minority activity in America (outside the Bible, that is). It's a nation where, by and large, the Zoroastrian ideal of "Good thoughts, good words, good deeds" is listed in ascending order of importance. (Assuming, of course, that your average American has even heard the word "Zoroastrian," let alone knows what it means.)
About one hundred years ago, an American legislator -never mind exactly where from - said that only three books were enough for anyone. First, the Bible (that teaches one how to behave), then the hymn-book (which "contains the finest poetry ever written"), and lastly the almanac (which tells how to guess the weather). This fellow led a successful fight against a bill that would establish public libraries in his state. I sometimes wonder how many Americans of today would agree with that literary selection. (Even I myself might...if the hymn-book was replaced by a complete omnibus of Shakespeare.) 🤓
What do you spect of a country who tells it is the entyre America? bear in mind it is North America and not only America :D
Anecdotally as a Brit living in Berlin, I will say that Americans who live here are very knowledgeable about the city and its culture and make a larger effort to speak German than the Brits I know. I think the problem is Americans who have never left the US or escaped their conditioning.
Germans should be speaking English anyway so don’t know why you’re moaning!
As an ex-Brit, living in Berlin for over 40 years, Brits don´t even try. Most Brits ( english ) and Americans seem just unable to overcome their sense of exceptionalism. After many years I´ve just started to ignore them.
You all should be happy that you don't see those people. They are terrible. We don't like to show them off to the world lol.
As a Brit living a couple of hours West of Berlin I agree with you. There's an American living in my small town who knows a lot about the local area, the history and speaks great German. Me on the other hand has terrible German and I know very little of my area. Granted I've been here a far shorter time but I was just surprised how knowledgeable he was. You are correct that it's the Americans that don't leave America that are the issue.
@@trevordavies5486i’m from hamburg but went to uni in london. the brits i met were always 10x more motivated to make an effort learning german or anything about germany than the americans i met
It's actually terrifying how well this aged 😳
I remember having an argument with an American about if Spain (my own country) was a colony of Mexico and he didn't want to admit that it was the other way around. BASIC HISTORY.
I would die laughing if this happened to me 🇲🇽
Americans got tired of sending US boys to die in European wars so excuse me. American companies operate everywhere on the planet and thousands of servicemen serve all over the globe. I regularly see European tourists try to climb on bisons or approach grizzly bears. European tourists act like our NPs are Disneyland.
Spain was a fascist state until 1975 and not a functioning democracy until the 1980s. Also Juan Carlos was a great statesman but Spain has rejected him. BASIC HISTORY.
@@darbyheavey406no
@@darbyheavey406 What does it have to be with this?
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
― George Carlin
thats scary 😂 we all see them support trump right now !😂
And the other half that are stupider than that support biden
@tijoelito biden appointed a woman to the Supreme court who stated that she doesn't know what a woman is. That's what you get with a president who has dementia and is confused by stairs, teleprompter, and little girls' hair.
How I miss George Carlin. I would love to see and hear his take on the great orange one.
@@MegaSmk I would love hear george carlin's take on the world at large at this point in time. He would floor us.
As an American who has gotten pretty tired of Europeans calling us “chucklefucks,” it’s so refreshing to hear a non-American rationalize why we’re perceived as so ignorant to anything within or outside of our own country. Good video
As a European I aswell am getting quite fed up with the hole “america the evil empire, cause of all evil”
Its frankly dangerous and it risks actual bad places like China, North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran and of course russia from going under the radar
This is just one man, the bad ones are xenophobes, don't tolerate it and call them out
"Perceived"
Perceived
@barakato no air conditioning?
Ive always felt that the difference between USA and North Korea is less than some people think.
By the end of Trumps second term, there may be NO difference.
I say this as an American. Something you forgot to mention more in detail is how scary it is spontaneously being under camera. I’ve gotten approached by a tik toker in one of those random pedestrian videos where someone approaches you randomly with a camera. I felt like I was getting robbed and I had fight or flight responses.
I’m exceptionally stellar at geography but even in that moment I probably couldn’t answer a geography thing well. I have immense sympathy for the LA people at the beginning.
Yeah theres alot of studies that support this too.
Those videos are retarded.
Yeah fair, if someone did that to me I’d probably panic and go with the first thing that came to my head.
Meh, mumbling „my mom“ would still be possible
He did mention it though.
He kinda did point it out with the "name a woman" clip.
No one is more acutely aware of this situation than US citizens to whom it doesn’t apply. The degradation and hobbling of the US public education system by either incompetence or by wilful neglect and conscious sociological sabotage is a global tragedy.
@catedavis4008 that's because private schools have flourished, thus enabling segregation, with the college system even more skewed. Americans have all the tools to educate themselves yet choose not to. Canada is right next door, yet 9 of 10 Americans know next to nothing about it. Same with Mexico. Ignorance is bad enough, and apathy compounds it.
And the broader global community has harnessed its hope to those ‘acutely aware’ US citizens!
@@Queensland-girl We're trying. Trust me, we're trying. Fun Fact (well, sad fact, really): My first US passport was issued in early 1988 and the serial number was less than 9 million. I'm pretty sure they don't reuse passport serial numbers.
God that sounds pretentious.
well you have all heard the American anthem AND THE HOME OF THE _____ what ???
I will never forget when I went to America on a college exchange for one semester. I’m Australian and when I introduced myself to an American classmate and told him I was from Australia he said ‘wow you speak American so well, how long have you been learning?’. I told him I don’t speak American, I speak English, the same language he’s speaking, and that we speak English in Australia. He was embarrassed and said ‘you probably think I’m a dumb American’. I couldn’t help myself and said yes, yes I do.
👁👄👁
of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most
No way you're serious!!! 😂
I'm also Australian and was asked by a family from Kansas while sharing a chairlift in Colorado "how long I had been learning English for" and "if we used money in Australia". Also met an American in Rekjavik while I was visiting some Swedish friend who had just moved there. The American told me he was "getting annoyed at not being able to speak with native enlgish speakers - no offense". And then gave me a look like I was an idiot when I told him I was a native speaker.
So i definitely believe OPs story as similar things have happened to me, and most Aussie will have a similar story.
@@dickbandanakenbop bop
"It doesn't mean Americans have gotten more globetrotting". Ironic since Americans are more likely to be shaped like a globe.
I traveled the US for a while, and my Dutch accent was mistaken for Canadian. My capital city was the name of the country Denmark, and some people asked what version of English we spoke in the Netherlands. The blank disinterested stares I got when talking about how things are done in the Netherlands or Europe in general still baffle me to this day. They truly don't understand that most of the world is not like the US. At the same time, for me it was very easy to adjust to life in the US, because it's very familiar through media exposure. Had a great time!
You definitely did not talk to the right people
Do you mean to say that the Americans you talked to thought Denmark was the capital of The Netherlands? That is sad and scary!
@@debra1363And BS.
@@Timberella3003 If it's BS then please explain what you did mean.
@@debra1363 Probably the same people who think a quarter hour is twenty five minutes.
Man, as an american who's going to be turning 19 next month and is just trying to find his own footing in life.
This is really all starting to feel hopeless.
We got a dumb orange in office, people who are constantly divided and can't have proper arguments anymore without yelling and screaming, and the world sits back and watches us like we're a circus full of clowns.
Because we kinda are.
😔
As a Western European considerably older than you, I can tell you that this trend is now spreading across all developed countries. Educational standards are declining, people read less and less-it’s easier to spend the day staring at screens than to make the effort to think. Schools are seeing a drop in academic levels. In essence, we’re about 20 years behind the United States, but that gap is closing quickly due to the immediacy of social media. Unfortunately, Europe is following the exact same path as the U.S.
Politically, it’s the same-we’re heading in the same direction. Extremes are becoming more pronounced because moderation and independent thinking require more effort than adopting a radical stance. Polarization and populism are increasingly visible across Europe. In this regard as well, we are following the same path as the United States.
Idiocracy is spreading all over the world.
WAMP wamp
@@RRR-v2d bro can't spell WOMP WOMP😂😂😂
All is not lost young man, there are young, intelligent Americans like yourself coming up, and you are not alone. This coming from an old yet proud Canadian.
Thing is that Europeans don’t realise just how prominent American isolationism was to American culture. Even though we abandoned it nearly a century ago, it still impacts the way Americans today think. Similar to the way the impact of social-darwinism gives Europeans massive god complexes.
It never really left tbh. You see it with many of our more populist politicians, most notably Donald Trump recently. However Bernie Sanders has proposed some isolationist policies in the past so its not just one side of the spectrum.
America was founded as an isolationist nation. The 1920s period of isolationism was a return to what Americans needed. America thrives in isolationism and dyes in globalism. When trump isolated the US we had an economic boom after the 8 year Great Recession, isolationism in the 20s caused the roaring 20s, the founders always said not to get involved in the rest of the world and it’s petty bullshit
@@travisfountain5160 Is Trump isolationist? I wouldn't say so, but I'm not American so it might seem different to me.
@@edwardburroughs1489Donald trump in 2016 ran on the thin vale Regonomics domestically while having an protectionist view globally. Most people forget that because by his 2020 campaign he completely abandoned this for haha sleepy joe is funny
If they think at all.. seems like almost 50% of Americans have given up on thinking and just blindly follow their dear leader.
I have had Americans visit. Culturally and don't even consider their way isn't the best way. Now they have elected Trump again I give them no hope. They will be an extreme, fascist country.
As an Australian travelling on a bus in Germany mid July, I sat next to an American lady and we chatted about the weather. I told her that where I come from, right now it’s winter. She couldn’t seem to get her head around that and actually asked “but when do you celebrate Christmas “?
Did she tell you about her LOVE for Trump?
Sadly the lady travelling with you in Germany forgot that Australia is in the Southern Hemisphere. She may not even know about the climate variation of Australia. When travelling we should think beyond the neighbourhood we come from.
Haha funny that you mention it as my best friend just found out australia has inverted seasons, at 21 years of age
@@niklasnaper6596 This could prove lack of interest in geography and the world beyond his neighbourhood.
@@niklasnaper6596 So, do they call Summer "Inverted?"
As an American this title might’ve upset me. If only I could read.
We’ll figure out what it says one day
Hold up wait a minute
Have the best colleges in the world and the most bright minds lived here and yet we are dumb ???
Please don't respond with a firearm.
@@Usabby1776yup
I saw a French exchange student at an American university serving some French cuisine for an international day in 2005. I asked her where in France she was from. She got a strange look on her face and said, "Lille." I thought for a minute and said, "Wasn't it the European Cultural City last year?" She looked stunned and said, "You're the first American I've met who knows my city!" "Sorry," I answered, "I'm Canadian."
Another time in college, three of us Canadians played Trivial Pursuit versus three Americans. Not regular Trivial Pursuit, the All-American version where all questions are about America. The Canadians won.
I got a Master's from a school in Buffalo, on the border with Canada. One professor happened to admit she had never been outside the US despite living 20 minutes from another country. She must not have anticipated the reaction because the amount of incredulity we showed her finally seemed to embarrass her.
Yeah. But do remember, some of us Americans actually listen to information and know the world. We may not know EVERY country or province but we do know the world.
It is pretty obvious to the rest of the world that the average American is stupid, at least half of them anyway. All you have to do is look at the politicians the Republicans elect, they tend to be the most "poorly educated" as trump, their elected president says. You listen to their elected Congressmen, Senators, they talk like grade school morons, even though they do tend to be educated themselves. They have to so that their electorate will understand them. That's also why we only tax the wealthy a token in this country, the Republicans have told the goobers that vote for them that all the money the wealthy get to keep, will trickle down to them! The dumb bastards believe that and vote for them. That's why the American Dream" that you have heard of is going extinct in this country. Our wealthy are insatiable, and they have bought all the Republicans so they do not have to pay any taxes, only the people that work for a living pay the taxes when things are run by Republicans. OK, as I said the wealthy pay a token, about one third to one eighth a percentage of their income as a working person does. That's why people can't afford higher education, healthcare, or to buy a home. Yes, Europe is superior to America in all those, probably Canada also. What do they have in common? No Republicans.
@@ChillyUltraKillit's just a pitty when you all see this information, you have your twisted little minds molding it into a narotive.. We have the Internet so finding info just happens by accident.. Its what Yanks then do with that info
The funny thing is if I were to do that I'd know that I'm twisting it but Yanks lie about something learning their own lies
Yanks are almost there but they're currupt at heart and most have so little self awareness they don't realise it... Honestly thick as pig shit
Bruh, Canada is just the fucked up part of America.
Lolll, the "Sorry, I'm Canadian" tracks 😂 ... and I'm Canadian too!
As a Canadian, being asked if I can speak Canadian was the most ridiculous, yet funny thing I've experienced from them. The intelligence of some Americans can be truly astounding 😂
You would ah. Especially playing with the trailer park boys ah
I worked with an American girl in Australia in around 2008/2009. To make conversation I asked about the capital cities of American states, and why they're often not the biggest, or most famous city in the state. Her reply, "it's because of terrorism". I was taken aback so I probed some more. Was it because they were once the biggest city in the state and have now been overtaken, or was it purely a question of geography? "No, it's because of terrorism". True story.
Did she have creaky-voice and end her sentences as if they were questions?
Yeah I think I know her. (but I'm glad that I don't)
"I do not think that word means what you think it means".
Hah proof positive. That by millions shows how stupid this population has decided to all to sit down and hide. Wrong democracy no matter how hard painful it gets
So sad I know!
did she mean tourism?
Because than at least the answer kind of makes sense
Lived in USA for two years. I am from Uruguay. They constantly confused Uruguay with Paraguay. They also asked me if there are monkeys in the street, why I am white, if there are buildings in my cities and if we have computers (I am a IT developer). Many times I had to say "I speak English because is the language you speak, you speak English because is the only language you speak".
Absolute classic
The truth is that the single largest influence on the rate of STUPIDITY in the US is FOX NEWS. A company who's business model is to keep their audience IGNORANT and FEARFUL. Every night they tell their CULT what to believe and who to FEAR.
Sadly enough, that confusion also occurs in Europe.
To be fair, I'm surprised they've even heard of Paraguay.
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Fair enough, but then why are so many Nobel prices won by Americans and virtually none by Latin Americans? (There are twice as many Latin Americans.) And why are so many Latin Americans lined up at the southern border trying to get into America?
😹 "you speak English bcz it's the only language you speak" ..... nice😹
I've heard an Italian say "the most stupid and intelligent people I've met are both from America". I'm American who's travelled abroad alot and I can confirm we really are at the extremes where a majority of us are very ignorant, much more so other countries, but a small handful of us are on the other extreme
america fosters extremes in general is what i'm beggining to notice. politics, social class, types of media, education level, and anecdotally, kindness. though i can't identify exactly why.
Might be genetic, remember the USA when it was British was the biggest dumping grounds, for poor people, very uneducated people, peasants, country bumpkins and criminals of all stripes, then brilliant business men, scholars and educated clergymen came over.
@@DumplingDoodle Mainly because those on the extreme ends of the spectrum just really hate change. Even the most basic of educational reform programs are fiercely opposed by the chief benefactors of the status quo.
@@Iamwolf134 right, i get that, but why? clearly shit is not working right now, so why are we just so stubborn that we refuse to acknowledge it? i get being scared of change, but when a country is on the line, you kinda gotta suck it up i feel.
@@DumplingDoodleProbably because of extreme capitalism. Differences between economic classes are much more than their european counterparts.
I'd suggest that the value America places on education plays a role as well. My wife went to a education conference in the US a few years ago and was appalled at how rudimentary their approach was to education.
As a side note, she was asked several times to consider applying for teacher roles in the US, especially given the amazing salaries (which are about 50% less than what is paid in Canada even after exchange is considered
From Canada:
A few years ago in Texas I was having lunch with a few college instructors. One insisted adamantly that Texas was bigger than Europe. He absolutely refused to hear a differing opinion. Aghast I fashioned a small bet and loaded up the facts for our meeting the next day.
I pointed out that France is about 70% the size of Texas. Then adding the size of Portugal I pointed out these two countries were bigger than Texas. I went on to present a few more European countries and soon the numbers showed Europe to be manymultiple sizes bigger than Texas.
Without the slightest morsel of chagrin he very reluctantly paid the tiny wager and said “yah, but you included the Scandinavian countries”.
It's because our education system is about not hurting people's feelings instead of teaching them and it sucks.
Plot twist: You re-elected Trudeau.
@JKNitro-vt5qsI'm russian, and there are some people
(I don't know the numbers, but I've met some of them)
thinking, they're right just because of their age... "I'm older than you and etc." (just to point out that if he says anything, it's right)
At this point, I just calmly ask them any facts about planes (What's APU or anything else), then they say
"-I dunno...".
-So, it means I know something, that you don't... So, age doesn't matter on knowledge, right?
And then I can continue arguing😂
I think it's not a nation thing, it's just dumb people...
We even have a joke like: "the biggest organization in the world is stupid people, they have their agents everywhere!" :D
The Scandinavia countries?! You included them?? Hur vågar du!
@@josepha.r5839 To be fair, your cultures won't exist in 50 years thanks to the terminal demography and immigration policies.
This reminds me of when I was working at Target a long time ago. A lot of people I worked with didn’t know that the US fought in World War II, where China is on a world map, that Joe Biden was the Vice-President at the time (2010), that Washington DC is the capital of the US, and that Europe is a continent instead of a country.
I guess I can sort of understand the China one -- although I know where it is on the map, don't get me wrong -- but the rest? No way, man.
Their ignorance is based partly on a dumbed down school system and on an individual basis their intelligence level.
@superiorsoldier57 bro, China is a really huge country and the most popular asian country
@@diegoneyra8227aKsHuAlLy ☝🤓 india overtook china recently and china is kinda having a population collapse. They're still the 2nd biggest country by far which is impressive but they're not number 1 anymore
I once thought that Europe was a city in Russia.
As a 10 year old American that was born in the us it frustrates me that some people 5 times my age don’t know that Africa isn’t a country
So true
@@jfields3036 George W. Bush was quoted as saying "Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease". You should run for president when you get older.
Rare 10 yo W
That is not only in the USA, every country has those people, it is like a virus that spreads now faster than ever thanks to Internet. The masses don't bother to learn, someone tells you about it, is much easier (twitter, tik-tok, fb, yt etc). Good to know YOU are not among them.
Bro you’re not a 10yr old, stop the cap 🧢
The problem with America, large though it is, is that it is a very parochial society. It is very similar to the middle ages in Britain. People were born in their village or hamlet, lived there all their lives and never left. Because of this, they knew nothing of the world that was more than a couple of miles away from their home.
The American educational system has always been consistent in its failure to teach anything apart from how great the country is and people swallow it hook, line and sinker. America will NEVER be as great as it thinks it is, until it educates its people about the world outside its land mass.
They are brilliant at self promotion particularly in the products that come out of Hollywood. According to celluloid city, they win every war that they have ever been involved in and on their own and save the world from alien invaders and all without the help of any other nation. Americans swallow this rubbish and believe that it is all true and it enhances their standing in the world.
They think that they invented everything. They haven`t a clue that many of the inventions that make their lives easier, are British or European. They think that they were all created by Americans,
The politicians know all about the system for stupid, Keep the populace ignorant and they are easier to manipulate.
I was in the Czech Republic catching the metro and this couple in front of me were taking ages to buy theirs from the machine. I went up and asked if I could help and they said they couldn’t use it because it didn’t have their language. The first flag was the Union Jack 🇬🇧 for English; but they were looking for the star spangled banner 🇺🇸, because they thought they spoke American.
Americans not realising that they speak English is quite common, I must say.
Fair enough, we need icons/symbols for languages.
Austrians don't want to use German flags as a label for their language.
“Americans not realizing that they speak English is quite common I must say”
-Simultaneously makes up some nonsense for internet clout, but also can’t understand how an anecdote doesn’t at all make anything “quite common”.
@@MelGibsonFan *realising - I speak English. And it’s a true story, fella. I live in the UK, and I used to frequently travel to the Czech Republic for work. I have plenty of similar experiences with many Americans. The smartest one I ever knew, I ended up dating at one point. Not all are thick, but many are.
@@dWFnZWVr statistically asians in america are smarter than the people in UK and all other european nations, and even white americans are smarter than the white people in most other nations lol
@@dWFnZWVr : There is a huge difference between being "thick" and being uninformed.
Intellectual laziness is a human weakness and the communist dominated public education system in America has capitalized on that. The public school system has been dumbing down American students since the 1950's.
Speaking as an American to you who said you live in the UK I have a question.
Did they teach you in your school that America spent 60,000 American lives in the air to keep your country free from Nazi Germany?
Yes, 60,000 dumb Americans gave their lives because America considered you guys an ally and went willingly to their deaths to save your backsides.
Your welcome.
Many people think its just as simple as point out "the education system". So glad to see a video who gives alternative answers.
Control the media.. They're a bunch of brainwashed morons
I have learned the vast majority of what I know IRL or online, very little in school.
There isn't even "an education system" in the US. Each state has its own.
To be fair, the education system and the quality of u.s media are some of the largest factors.
Yes, I definitely expected more of an explanation of our shitty education system. I was pleasantly surprised about the alternative take, but I do think the educational system is a far FAR bigger factor.
You're too kind, no really, you're too kind. I was born in the 50s and thought, like millions of other Americans, that everyone on planet Earth spoke English and only occasionally spoke in other languages because they wanted to. We would say, "If you speak to a foreigner and they doesn't seem to understand, just speak louder. It's because they are hard of hearing!" By sheer happenstance, I wound up moving to Geneva, Switzerland, as a young adult in the 1970s. OMG!!! Just two words: CULTURE SHOCK. Americans are ignorant and dumb about the rest of the world and they prefer it that way. But thanks for attempting to put a light-hearted, "awe shucks," spin to our ignorance. You're just too kind and I mean that.
Cool story bro and I mean that. 🇨🇦
I would love to hear more about the Cultural shocks you got in Switzetland if you don't mind ^^ cultural shocks are always fun to hear
@@kioumim You're right. They are some of the funniest and most insightful moments of my life. I even wrote a book about them. I'll see if I can be a bit concise here so it doesn't go over 1,000 words. Here's a preculture shock one: In 7th grade I remember taking a semester of French and thinking I was somehow fluent. At a French restaurant in Sausalito, California, I wanted to impress my Mom by ordering a glass of chocolate milk. "Une glace de chocolat," I told the waiter. He smiled and brought me back a chocolate ice cream cone.
@@toeg1 You did order chocolate ice cream in French lols. More please :)
America is a continent, not a country. Plus, an American is from the Continent of America.
In '92 I worked in Oklahoma City for about six month putting in operation a system we sold to the then new plant of Xerox. I still remember some eye opening moments:
One day browsing a store I overheard a teenage girl asking her friend how much are 50% off $30, the answer was about $17.
On site I was asked how long my DRIVE from Germany had taken me.
Back then, most of my colleagues from the commissioning team from our client Xerox were first or second generation immigrants from all over the world. The real Americans were gophers and shovel holders.
As a 16 year old South African I was very interested in world history....and loved geography.
I saved every penny to travel in Spain in 1979 I met an American couple...so you from South Africa are you not scared of the lions😮 roaming the streets?
I was not surprised cos I knew back then how stupid the Americans are,
I just smiled😊
America is not a developed country. Maybe it has been forty years ago. The education & health system, food quality, work-life balance, family support, legal system, secure life - all this is far behind what developed nations offer their population. Why should Canada, Mexico or Greenland be interested to become a part of the United States?
I often refer to them as 3rd world, their education and healths system is literally for the wealthy now
Especially because canada is in a far worse state than America, why should one very faulty country be annexed with another?
I just got back from Japan and I agree.
We own you
Thank you for saying this. Oh so true.
Before becoming a US citizen you need to pass the citizenship test. One day i got a package in the mail, and it was a book to study about the US history. I decided to take it to work and read it at lunch. One of my coworkers was asking questions, and behold i got 75% right. Next worker from Mexico got 60% and all American worker got between 10 and 25% right..Some didn't know the Capital of there own State 😂
It's "their" own state.
@@mcdainty4202 It's "their own State".
I taught English as a Second Language for several years. I helped a lot of students with that book. Thank you for validating what I always believed, that most native born couldn't pass the test.
@@angelachouinard4581 Most illegals here in the U.S. couldn't pass the test.
@@goldeagle8051 state isn't capitalized. the more you know!
As an Australian who has visited the US on many occasions and traveled widely, I love your assessment. Very accurate.
As an American who visited Australia one time, all I can do is lower my head and quietly shuffle off the stage.
Nah f that, yeah it's sadly accurate. I'm glad I was educated classically and am apart from the mainstream which has become prevalent.
The level of ignorance is shocking. And not just in academic ways, it holds affect on day to day life in the US. And not in a good way.
As I write this from South America where my children are currently being raised.😊 I'm glad my prodigy has not been subjected to what I've endured.
Mate , sadly we seem to be going the same way here.
Ill be honest as a fellow australian we're, uh, "American Lite" so to speak
I remember having a discord sesh with my friends (one of whom, Sully, is from a small town near Perth, and the other one, Dan, is from Florida). We got into a friendly argument about American georgaphy and whether or not a Russian and an Aussie actually know it well. Me and Sully pulled out a map on the screen and tried our best not only to identify which state is where, but also to recall some facts about each state. Turns out, we had absolutely no idea where Delaware and New Hampshire are, but we knew a suprising amount of cool facts about Wisconsin and Massachussets; and even though we did not always know where exactly each state is located, we had a generally good idea about the states themselves (their cultures, history, or could at least name a rock-band or a famous person born there; thank you Sam O'Nella for being from Delaware).
To his credit, when it was Dan's turn to point out European countries on the map, he did an even better job than us in terms of general knowledge about the countries (at least the big boys; when I told him to find Bosnia, he informed me that this is the first time he heard this name). He did an absolutely lousy job pointing them out geographically though. I have no idea how one can place the Scandinavian countries somewhere other than Scandinavian peninsula, or place the Baltic countries nowhere near the Baltic Sea.
Aaaand when it was my and Dan's turn to at least try to find something on the Australian map, we couldn't even find Melbourne. I did find Esperance though! So Sully just sighed, sat us down and gave us a rundown on Australian geography (it somehow ended with him ranting about the ineffective economy of his country though).
TL;DR: I think it's not that important to know where something is located geographically (you ain't going to bomb this country, right), the more important thing is actually *knowing* something about the place. Me and Sully aren't stupid for being unable to find Idaho, and Dan isn't stupid for not knowing where Albania is. It's mostly the fault of the education system that doesn't give a shit about other countries and cultures and doesn't teach the kids anything that won't enable their patriotism (which is a very handy tool).
Also, we had a very good time with this. Somewhere in the depths of Dan's computer still sits a crude MS Paint drawing named "america explained by a russian jew and an australian australian" (Danny drew it, snickering and giggling, while watching us struggle).
@@thomasalexander5322yea.. ppl in cities are just tards
As a 8th grade American, it really pisses me off seeing how most Americans cannot name more than 5 countries… 5 COUNTRIES!! Like god damn, I can name over 30 off the top of my head! Vertasium (idk how it’s spelled, I’m sorry) made a video where he asked Americans about the scale of the things in the universe from smallest to largest, wanna guess how many people got it all right? Hm? Well, let me tell you, MOST OF THEM GOT IT ALL WRONG!!! It genuinely pisses me off living in a country where most of its citizens are dumb in those fields. I’d blame the school system and its lack of funding, and heck, I love school, I think it’s fun to learn! But hearing 8th graders being unable to spell “school” or know 8 x 4 of the top of their head breaks my heart. Maybe I’m the stupid one, maybe the school system put the wrong students in the wrong classes, maybe I’m missing the point, hell, I don’t know! I just wish the government were to improve schools.
All have Tik Tok accounts i assume
Its fake
As an American, who was an Exchange Student for a year in New Zealand, at age 16, I can say it was an enlightening experience that I wish every American could have. It gave me a whole new perspective on my own country. Kiwis are wonderful people and the country has some of the most breathtaking scenery anywhere in the world. What was the most shocking was how knowledgeable the people were about America, and it's history, geography, etc. They did have some crazy notions of American culture, but that is to expected, being on the other side of the World.
Then, when I got home, I had to explain to many people that NZ was not in Europe. SMH.
The reasson why americans don't know anything about other countries history, geography, etc is the don't care.All they know is america is greatest country in the world so why give a fk about learning about another country.A very arrogant, ignorant attitude that will never change.
Bro,is this actually true that the people don’t even know where NZ is at?
I think the American stereotype is the only stereotype of a country that is actually true.
Oh! I thought it was in Nederland lol
@@GuyWets-zy5ytthat would be old zeeland 😉
@@willhatton2792 no its just called Zeeland
“an above average episode of the news” is the most hilarious way to describe 9/11 I’ve ever heard
Reminds me of calling ww2 “a small skirmish”
@@Deleted_Cat it was a small skirmish for the yanks because they turned up late (as usual)
@@DavesFootballChannel They were not concerned before Pearl Harbor, and the vast majority were against involvement in the war!
@@virgilius7036 war defines the US as a nation!
@@DavesFootballChannellooks at 2/3rds of European countries:
I'm Chilean, I traveled to Las Vegas for a festival last year. I met some ppl on the line, and we were talking about where we came from, or rather, they were talking. They talked all the time about the US.
I mean I flew 12 hours from Chile to get here and no one asked a single thing about my country. They were like 'ok, I don't know where that is, let's talk about Kentucky' I guess they're not interested.
Jesus I’m from Kentucky and the fact they’d rather talk about that is just sad. I’d be grilling you about Chile.
Yep, that's us americans. Always talking about Kentucky. Can't talk about it enough.
@@MatthewRX They didn't. He was making a bad joke.
No les interesa nada fuera de sus fronteras, salvo que seas enemigo.
"You mean you're from chili beans" - average American probably
I think that the problem isn’t just ignorance, but the fact that they still think they’re the best country in the world and are legitimated to do what they like while not even knowing what’s beyond their borders. And we’ll all suffer the consequences.
It's because they have been bombarded since early childhood with an astonishing level of propaganda that drills into their heads how they are the best in every field and how incredibly lucky they are to live in this great country. Nothing else interests them; they are so self-centered that they end up being ignorant about everything happening outside their country.
In the end, this great democracy has reached a level of internal propaganda aimed at its own population that is almost on par with Germany between 1933 and 1945.