10 Things The UK Does Better Than The US (American Reacts)

[@markjones9693]

Correction here . Uk invented the World Wide Web . Just a note ,,, love the videos

[@philroue]

Yup, Tim Berners-Lee, a Brit, invented the http protocol in 1989 that drives the Web though he was working at CERN in Geneva at the time. There is though a lot more to the Internet than just the Web, and Brits made contributions to that as well (e.g.packet switching).

[@patriciacarline6975]

Not only did a Brit invent the WWW - he gave it to the world without cost! Many companies, individuals etc profit from the Web but the creator didn't!!

[@michw3755]

Yes, but he didn't invent the Internet, he invented the means to access websites, until then people only had access to a site if they knew the address to access a site, so was only accessible to certain people, the www made it possible for anyone to have access to a website, hence where we are today.

[@philroue]

@@michw3755 No, he invented the http protocol, for sending hypertext documents (I.e. web pages) over the Internet. You're thinking of DNS, that coverts web addresses into their corresponding IP addresses, that are then used to generate an http request. This is what browsers like Chrome do under the cover. DNS has been around since the 1970s, though the Internet as it was then had limited access, mostly military and universities, and everything was text based, no fancy web pages like now, which http made possible.

[@DJKav]

In the video, the invention of the internet was credited to the US. Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first browser, web server and all the associated protocols for files, mail ect. through the W3C.

[@phoenix-xu9xj]

Joel staggered by the fact that somebody could be more intelligent than Americans 😂😂

[@rascalnz9983]

Joel, when you move to the UK the disparity between the US and the UK will be increased.

[@helenbailey8419]

😂😂😂

[@cree878]

I’m not a royalist but Prince Charles makes between 20 and 24 million a year from his private estate the duchy of Cornwall , which he chose to pay taxes on and the profit goes towards funding his public and private activities of his family snd charitable donations 😃

[@lokki245]

Also worth noting that the money given to the queen is calculated as a percentage of the income the crown estates give to the country. The crown usually gets back between 15-25% of the money it gives but it's sometimes more (~40%+) when there are unusual costs expected (e.g. major building renovations).

[@susanashcroft2674]

Just a friendly little reminder Joel at the end of the video don't stick two fingers up facing that way, as you are basically saying f**k off to people in the UK and may be other places. Always good to know especially if you are planning to visit the UK in the future, that this gesture is an insult and not the peace sign you were intending. Best Wishes.

[@janicetaylor7516]

Susan whereabouts on the video did Joel 'stick two fingers up'? I've looked a few times and just can't see it.

[@susanashcroft2674]

@@janicetaylor7516 Thanks Janice, at the end when he said peace. I know it was a genuine mistake on Joel's part but just thought worth a mention if he comes over here. I know someone else has mentioned it in the comments also. Best Wishes

[@janicetaylor7516]

@@susanashcroft2674 thanks Susan. Best wishes to you too!

[@user-itschad1954]

Oh there's more. We speak the Queens English which is the international language, all aircraft operators are compelled to speak English. Then the NHS, a misconception by most US citizens is the word SOCIAL HEALTHCARE the word social frightens most Americans. Your argument for internet speed is groundless, the bigger the country is the infrastructure should be there, in the UK 68 million population are in a country that would fit in Texas three times. It's not all bad though, the US did give the world a whole shedload of BAD FOR YOU fast food.

[@joefarrell6682]

Religion doesn’t help if you’re not religious you think for yourself more and as we know there seems to be a lot of extreme religions in America

[@nickhickson8738]

Yes, if you're God fearing then you are at a disadvantage straight away. The Straight jacket of Religion, the cause of most strife around the world.

[@roxannekean6025]

There are more extreme religions in the Middle East. At least we don't stone our daughters to death for getting themselves raped.

[@elemar5]

@@roxannekean6025 Yeah, that makes it a little better I suppose.

[@johnp8131]

I'm sure others will tell you? If you stick two fingers up to someone in the UK like that, as you did at the end. You may get an adverse reaction?

[@geoffreythomas4145]

Agree. Others have pointed this out in comments before, including myself. Makes me wonder how many of these comments he actually reads as I wouldn't think it was deliberate.

[@ItsJps]

I'm sorry its a bad habit. I will really try to stop doing it. And yes I do read the comments.

[@davidwebley6186]

Not sure why you are surprised about the IQ for those who regularly view KZbin it is plainly obvious that many (present channel excepted) Americans are a sandwich short of a picnic. Quite a number of Americans it seems don't know how many stars and stripes are on the US flag which they seem to drape about themselves ( which is against the US flag code by the way.) in the name of patriotism. Perhaps you guys don't learn the significance of those in school, which would be odd to say the least. Intelligence is not governed by knowledge alone though , it is the ability to understand, apply and utilize that knowledge for other endeavours. It appears to the outside world that for many Americans their knowledge of the world is limited to their state, not even the US as a whole and generally they don't seem to think there is any valid reason for them to need to learn more than that. To my knowledge (without Googling) there are 2 US states that use the Union flag , Hawaii (illegally annexed by the US) and Alabama , check out the Alabama coat of arms. I can't watch the majority of American documentaries as they come across as extremely dumbed down. Also after what is probably every commercial break you guys seem to have forgotten everything so they have to spend a bit of time repeating the information from before the break. Neil de Grasse Tyson's work though is an exception, he is a very intelligent, capable and engaging communicator and presenter. You Joel are breaking away though as you have a general interest in learning and understanding the world outside the US borders so would not doubt that your intelligence is above the US average.

[@scatton61]

The Queen actually brings in more money than she costs the taxpayer.

[@jas20per]

I think one advantage the British have is that schools teach world history as well as the countries history possibly creating more interest in other world countries may be.

[@proudyorkshireman7708]

Unfortunately I didn’t get to take history at school luckily my tutor was a history teacher so he managed to get me on the ww1 history trip. So I only did a weeks worth of history in secondary school

[@scottirvine121]

@@proudyorkshireman7708 mandatory for 2 years mimimim when I was at school, 90-96

[@scottirvine121]

Agreed, we are aware there is a big world out there, IMO states don’t do this but rather preaching their own country is best at everything, even saying they invented the TV

[@meIevolence]

@@scottirvine121 - I had to choose between history and geography, so my geography education is majorly lacking! I’ve never understood having to choose one or the other, it must have changed not long after you finished by your comment.

[@janejohnstone5795]

yes....very true....all good education...American..education needs a new overhaul...

[@richardhunter7363]

900+ books by US authors and a good proportion of those are by James Patterson!!!! LOL

[@minnie5301]

Hasn't James Patterson a ghost writer? Not sure

[@AniMewAlex]

Well the UK did only go on to produce some of the highest grossing book seires like Harry Potter and Lords of the Rings.. We also just have a much larger book culture. We even have the worlds largest library as well.

[@labradorlady5537]

I think the intelligence thing is down to learning, a lot of Americans tend to be insular, and have little or no knowledge of things outside of the US. But having said that, you and other You tubers are starting to change that, ☺

[@leehallam9365]

IQ tests don't really test learned knowledge, it's more about mental skills.

[@jules.8443]

Have the clocks gone forward in the USA? I noticed this reaction and another American's reaction are on 1 hour earlier.

[@BedsitBob]

Trouble is, they also struggle with questions about America, and subjects not related to other nations, like science questions.

[@julesfromdevon5568]

@@BedsitBob Well if what has been happening at the American School in London is anything to go by we know why and you could predict that IQ might be sliding downwards. When I read that one American red brick college has hired an English Professor to teach Chemistry students how to analyse implied racism and white fragility in their textbook (of chemistry facts) I begin to wonder what the heck is going on in the US.

[@libradragon934]

@@jules.8443 Yes, the UK changes next week!

[@grahamfunnell5590]

The UK IQ scores may be a shade ahead of the US, but did you notice that the top scoring 4 or 5 countries were Asian countries. These are the countries both the US and UK need to catch up with in future.

[@margaretnicol3423]

Some Asian countries don't allow calculators in the classroom until the kids are doing senior work. In other words they are using their brain instead of their finger! Like muscles - the more the brain is exercised the stronger it gets.

[@alanmon2690]

@@margaretnicol3423 When I went to school and university we didn't have calculatorss or computers. We had to know things, no books in exams or multiple choice questions. Even as a retired elderly gentleman I can still do mental arithmetic and ovver fings but the memory is a bit erratic!

[@margaretnicol3423]

@@alanmon2690 I'm not sure calculators were invented for general use apart from the scientific ones. :-) I wonder what today's kids would make of slide rules/slip sticks??? :-D

[@alanmon2690]

@@margaretnicol3423 wot dem? Probably shivs. I still have my Thorntons double-sided slide rule. I slip it out sometimes to remind me of my youth. One of the people in my team was an Oxford graduate in Mathematics. He used a calculator to do his expenses and other simple calculations. I talked to my nephew once about his education and was appalled--he seemed to have been several years behind what I was doing at his age. Still, that nice Mr Blair's "Education, Education, Education" seems to have worked out well. For the Universities and The Exam Setting businesses who are raking it in. And the under-worked teachers.

[@margaretnicol3423]

@@alanmon2690 The rest OK but not under worked teachers. They work hard with kids who are too often less than respectful which I wouldn't have dreamed of when I was a kid. However, they do have to struggle with a huge amount of form filling/red tape rather than just concentrating on teaching.

[@Kari_B61ex]

The cost of the UK monarchy and US president blew my mind. Especially when you think of how much the UK makes due to tourism - people from all over the world visit the UK to see the Queen (Trooping of the Colour etc) and the palaces. I, for one, wouldn't visit the US just to a glimpse of a presidential motorcade.

[@anitawhite2669]

The Royal Family cost the UK taxpayer approx 66p per year!!!! But just think of all the money they draw in through tourism.

[@marycarver1542]

This misses the point that we also have Prime Ministers, who actually run the country. I am not sure that Americans realise this. The Monarchy has no political power now. So, although our PMs cost nothing like American Presidents, (or French) we do have both systems.

[@viviennedunbar3374]

Yes, also he didn't break down the figures per head of population as he did with other stats (such as writing books and new science papers). Also Americans are a Superpower and have to protect their president to many more threats and all over the world. The Queen mostly just beetles around her British castles.

[@szabados1980]

You're insulting yourselves by measuring The Queen's value in the cost of the monarchy and how much they might generate in tourism.

[@redwarpy]

With the Queen's property and valuables on display in museums and such, tourism is not just seeing the Queen but artwork, buildings etc.

[@DruncanUK]

Don't feel too bad Joel, USA comes first in a lot of areas, such as: Proportion of population incarcerated, number of people going bankrupt due to healthcare costs, number of citizens killed by police each year...etc. Obviously, no country is perfect, but USA needs to pull it's socks up.

[@BedsitBob]

Single parent households.

[@davidwebley6186]

A bit ironic about the numbers in prison especially as they consider themselves THE land of the free ;)

[@ElizabethDebbie24]

Wrong guy JT is a different You Tuber who lives in Kentucky, this young man is called JPS his given name is JOEL

[@DruncanUK]

@@ElizabethDebbie24 Ooops. I'm sorry Joel! I had a slight brain fart.

[@colinp2238]

@@ElizabethDebbie24 JT Kelly does great videos too, more amusing than educational.

[@nigelgordon]

When it comes to writing books, one factor that might contribute is the emphasis on fiction writing that exists, or at least did exist, in British schools. I don't know if it is still the case but thirty-odd years ago some friends of mine moved from the US to the UK. They had a 14-year-old daughter. She was horrified when she was given for homework the task of writing a 1000 word story with the only direction that it should include a description of the landscape. She said back in New York the teachers always gave the fairly clear topics to write about. I remember when I was at school our essay subjects in English were always fairly open.

[@irene3196]

I remember in my primary school having to write the life story of a penny from it's minting to it's journey from then on. Mine ended up as a lucky penny in the pocket of a soldier in Burma.

[@iriscollins7583]

@@irene3196 Wonderful. Would have loved that when I was young. Spelling,Grammar, and using your own imagination. Having to research facts, or working out if things would work,that hadn't been invented yet. The feasibility etc. Even if your conclusion was way out Unfortunately, when I went to School, there was a war going on 1943 to 1953, the War and the aftermath. The Government had other worries on their minds.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

@@iriscollins7583 What 'conclusion' are you referring to in @Irene st comment? She made a factual statement only and given the subject of the story is a penny, Britain was using them as far back as the 1700s, so @Irene st could be older then you and talking about her early schooling pre WWII . In terms of Wars; WWII was 1939 to 1945/6 and Korea was 1950-53, so which war covered the period you refer to?

[@mistakenot...4012]

@@Thurgosh_OG I don’t think they were referring to Irene st, but describing the entire concept of that kind of work. Where the accuracy of the ‘conclusion’ is less important than the process ie demonstrating creativity or sound reasoning along the way.

[@irene3196]

Just to clear up, Iris Collins, I was in primary school in the 1940s. The conclusion of my story was not 'way out', and my father was in a Scots Regiment (1st Btn Cameron Highlanders) fighting in Burma. I had no need to research anything. People do have lucky talismans, so why should one not be a penny?

[@victordevonshire807]

Keep learning. You're smart. Don't be an arseole like me, you're a a good and clever person. Love your reactions.

[@Ionabrodie69]

Yes he is a great young guy.. people like Joel are the future. and that’s encouraging for the Americans.. JT is another young lad that’s outward looking.. 👍🇬🇧

[@TheM0JEC]

Hey Joel, like your videos but your ‘peace’ at the end of this one was the wrong way round, it needs to be with your palm towards the camera not the back of your hand, that way round it could be read as anything from ‘up yours’ to ____ off, a bit like ‘giving someone the bird’ with the middle finger.. keep learning and keep making good videos

[@odin741]

Yes I'd agree with the top authors of literature... unfortunately, America seems to take perverse delight in corrupting our works of literature when they insist on "modernising" them to fit in with their own version of local politics- which is happening right now with J R R Tolkien being their latest victim!

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Amazon will lose this fight, they have declared on Tolkien's fans.

[@roxannekean6025]

If you are referring to Amazon, I totally agree!

[@peterd788]

Hawaii does indeed have the Union flag in its flag for a similar reason Australia does. Why the British write so many books is anyone's guess but the UK exports more literature than the US with a fifth of the population. I like to think that's down to Americans not being able to spell.

[@josefschiltz2192]

Decomplexification is an IQ dropper. Webster - and his ilk - didn't do Americans a favour! As for the anutrients in the diet! Good grief!

[@TopherPotter]

Actually Hawaii has the Union flag on its flag for a completely different reason than Australia. Australia was once a British Territory and used as a penal colony, which is why they use the Union flag. Whereas the Kingdom of Hawaii Used the flag of the East India Trading Company (similar to Hawaii's flag without blue stripes) as a sign of mutual friendship of Britain as a trading partner.

[@roxannekean6025]

You spell like the French. Colour instead of color.

[@josefschiltz2192]

@@roxannekean6025 Well, Norman French was the official language of the upper echelons of the society of England for over half-a-millenium from the Norman invasion onwards. Commoners spoke Middle English, Chaucers English - earlier on - to Shakespeare's English in the early 1600s. During the last years of Shakespeare's life, when the Americas were colonized, the then current spellings went over with the colonists. Later standardization of the language over there dropped many of the spellings that our later standardization retained. Actually, pronouncing color the same as colour doen't make sense. Ridding the second syllable of it's diphthong that creates the 'er' sound, by dropping the 'u', should change the sound to 'or' rather than 'er'. Color, as it is spelt in American standard would be pronounced Cull - OR, emphasizing the second syllable.

[@roxannekean6025]

@@josefschiltz2192 French was the language of most of Europe's aristocracy. I have a degree in history.

[@Westcountrynordic]

Joel a heads up, when you put your fingers up like that at the end of the video you're doing the American version of giving the bird to the viewers

[@annemariefleming]

Hi Joel. I think in the case of the IQ situation, there are more politically-motivated teachers/professors in the American school system. In the UK kids are taught HOW to think, while in America you're increasingly taught WHAT to think. The wind farms have a drawback...when it's very windy they have to be switched off to stop the sails flying off. Ironic? As we say over her, "you couldn't make it up", lol! The science figures are understandable...we've simply been at it longer than you have. People in the UK tend to read more books, partly because we don't have 1,000 tv channels to choose between.

[@Ionabrodie69]

And wouldn’t want 1.000s of American TV channels either.. 🤔😂🇬🇧

[@roxannekean6025]

@@Ionabrodie69 We don't want them either! Your British TV is much better!

[@davidrhodes5245]

I must say, i was surprised at your reaction to the UK being more intelligent than the US. It seemed like you thought that couldn’t be true. Why would you think that ? 😂

[@AndyK.1]

And by 3:10 things were not as he expected

[@apuppynamedoz]

Wait... There's only 10? The answer is everything 🤣🤣🤣

[@helenwood8482]

The internet speed thing is silly. It's a small difference and not something anyone would notice. The book thing is simple. The UK has always celebrated words and thoughts and literature. America has traditionally distrusted people who seem clever and eloquent, which is why they routinely elect people who can't form a coherent sentence. Writing is seen as the job of a select few, whereas in the UK, it's accepted that a person of any class can write something worthwhile.

[@colinp2238]

The internet spped is a local thing and not national, if you live in the big city there is always an advantage of good coverage, this goes back to the old analogue telephone systems before the web.

[@emy1975]

They make people dumbe to elect morw dumb people

[@HermanVonPetri]

There is, unfortunately, a strong anti-intellectual streak running throughout U.S. culture. Far too many people here have conflated having a rigorous skepticism with the outright rejection of expertise in specialized fields. They misunderstand what skepticism is. It's not simply questioning that which you disagree with until you find something that makes you feel comfortable. Intelligence includes also questioning comfortable assumptions and then actually doing the thinking part to test if those assumptions correspond to reality. That's the step that often gets skipped here.

[@bernardthedisappointedowl6938]

Ha, flipping your audience the V's at the end there? You do know that's the (slightly jokey) equivalent of the middle finger in the UK? ^oo^

[@magnolia7277]

When I was 9 or 10 in primary school we were taught how to write a book, it was divided into 3 chapters and we worked on a chapter a week, and then drew pictures for the front cover, mine was about a shipwrecked mouse!

[@deniseperryman2814]

I agree with it all Joel were just the best that’s why we’re called Great Britain 😂😂 great reaction Love from Denise in Yorkshire England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👍👏👏👏💞💞💞

[@maureenjones7222]

How many times! She is not the Queen of England! She's the Queen of great Britain and the commonwealth!

[@al129]

Actually she is Queen of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom. Great Britain is the main island on which England, Scotland and Wales are the constituent nations.

[@TukikoTroy]

Love the way your expression and posture went from relaxed and a 'yeah right' smirk; to an arms folded, face set expression and finally a looked of resigned acceptance. Not that it matters, it's just a bit of fun; it would be so easy to produce a similar vid of many things the US does better than the UK... Electing dangerous clowns, for example (although Boris Johnson is a very close second).

[@BiteYerBumHard]

Boris is a clown. No doubt. But compared to say, Trump, his intellectual skills are superior. He can create a great turn of speech and has a respectable insight on world events. It's a pity he's a lying, cheating twat with few ethics and a severe inability to channel his education into effective leadership. Faintly misogynistic, maybe, but strangely poetic and descriptive: 'As I write these words there are semi-naked women playing beach volleyball in the middle of the Horse Guards Parade immortalised by Canaletto. They are glistening like wet otters and the water is plashing off the brims of the spectators' sou'westers. The whole thing is magnificent and bonkers.'

[@szabados1980]

Excuse me but who's elected BoJo? He got 25,351 votes as the local parliamentary candidate in his village and a couple hundred when he was elected the leader of his pary. Food for thought!

[@TukikoTroy]

@@szabados1980 You're absolutely right of course. Always happy to be corrected.

[@TukikoTroy]

@@BiteYerBumHard Thank you for putting the details into my one word description. Btw, who won? Never mind, it was the audience of course :)

[@janicetaylor7516]

We may think we in the UK are the smartest but we are still allowing migrants in to our countries in huge numbers. Seems bloody stupid to me.

[@TheGarryq]

"Despite having invented the internet..." OK but we invented the WWW system that makes it work ;)

[@jhfdhgvnbjm75]

You should react to a yes priminister scene XD

[@jacklondon3355]

"Well, that is because they ruled the world." Hahaha!!! 😆😆😆

[@niknoks6387]

Joel we have loads of rural populations, some of those have rubbish internet connections. 🇬🇧

[@lindascott6902]

Lived in both countries, citizen of neither. The UK does things requiring intelligence better... look at comedy; most British comedians are Oxbridge educated

[@birdie1585]

Over the years, UK and UK-based scientists have produced huge numbers of commercially important inventions, but we fail to commercialise them properly, or if we do at first, we rest on our laurels and let the rest of the world improve what was invented and get ahead. Renewable enrgy is great in the UK, but a small part of the current world energy crisis was caused by the lack of wind and sunshine in Europe during 2021. Around 30% of UK energy is from renewables in an average year.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

It's just over 40% for the UK.

[@birdie1585]

@@Thurgosh_OG When we get enough wind and sunshine, the UK can get over 50% of its energy from renewables, but solar and wind are unpredictable and unreliable, as was shown in 2021.

[@neilburgess9652]

just a quick thing to do with the last part of the video you covered, it's not quite the Union Jack included in the various flags but the Union flag, unless its on a ship and out of harbour. It's pedantic I know but an important distinction regardless. Cool video from you though man

[@pamelaryland]

Oh dear. The two finger sign you made at the end of this video means 'F*** you' when used this way round. Palm forward, it stands for victory but back of hand forward it is a serious insult.

[@TREXdudi]

As a Brit I love states and regularly travel there for holiday. Unfortunately the country or better say some states doesn’t feel American any more, most of the people only speak Spanish and homeless are everywhere which you really feel unsafe especially with kids and family. But we Brits consider US as part of the family. God bless United States and God save the United states from Democrats.

[@lesleygilbert1945]

The internet speed info was from 2015 so I'm sure it's changed since then. I live in Hull, Yorkshire and we are the only place in the UK that has it's own telephone company and a lot of money has been invested in the internet section. I've had fibre optic broadband for the past 3 years with 400Mbps download & 80Mbps upload, unlimited data & free phone calls to anywhere in the UK ☎😁

[@jovianr900]

IQ tests are designed to take into account differences in education and don't have questions related to knowledge. The most likely explanation I have seen is to do with differences in extent of inequality in pre-natal, peri-natal and childhood healthcare and nutrition.

[@idontsignin]

Another thing we do better. When buying stuff from the supermarket, the price you see is them price you pay.

[@davidbroadfoot1864]

No, the US didn't really invent the internet. Here is my summary of who did what.... 1960s: distributed networking proposals (USA and UK, independently). Based on that work, ARPANET was conceived in 1969 (USA).
 1970s: earliest efforts to interconnect computers (USA, in collaboration with the UK and France). 1974: the TCP/IP protocol (USA) 1980s: the Domain Name System (USA) 1989: the first commercial ISP (Australia)

 1989: the WorldWideWeb … HTTP, HTML, first browser, and first website (UK) 1992: WiFi (Australia)

[@mickmackem1479]

You never watch Americans ask to point out country on a map or Jay Leno asking simple questions on the streets idiotcracy film comes to mind my worry is Britain education is turning into American education young people are getting stupid especially with woke generation

[@TheBritishBarman]

You should defintly do a reaction to the RAF 100 Year anniversary flyby. Dozens and dozens of military aircraft flying over London and the Royal family at Buckingham Palace. Its awesome.

[@Jv2332]

How is the nhs not in there ?

[@stewedfishproductions7959]

What happened to HEALTHCARE ??? 🤔😮

[@JamesonEst1780]

Ha, the yellow 2CV at 06:13 driven by Roger Moore’s James Bond was owned by my father in law. He was chairman of the 2CV club and was paid by the film company to borrow his car. It was returned to him unharmed at the end of filming!

[@lizzieapples3339]

I don’t consider myself smart in the slightest I’m an NHS domestic I scrub theatres 😂 I enjoy doing IQ tests as a lot of them are mostly puzzle solving which I love apparently my IQ always comes out as either 128 or 130 😂 I don’t think it means much lol

[@barryheath8123]

I think some of these facts are dodgy, personally.

[@andrewfitzgerald2327]

Just one correction the US did not invent the world wide Web or Internet.

[@elemar5]

Who invented the internet in your eyes? You may want to edit your comment.

[@martinscott-reed5379]

To be honest I don't think any of them were "A reach." Americans have a very hard time when it comes to realising that they aren't the best at everything they do. We brits do a lot of things that don't compare with other countries, but we tend to freely admit it.

[@Jeni10]

If you ask a young American which they would rather do, watch a movie or read the book that inspired the screenplay, what would they say? You can survey this at your own college and see what happens. Might even be a good topic for an essay or a project. Don’t forget to factor in their reasons too.

[@roxannekean6025]

Come to my house. I have thousands of books on all subjects.

[@Jeni10]

@@roxannekean6025 How many have you read?

[@MrWelki]

12mpbs? I get 746mbps on 5g and a lot of people in towns now have gigabit broadband 👍

[@davidwallin7518]

I suffer with only about 450!

[@MrWelki]

@@davidwallin7518 👍🤣

[@davidwallin7518]

@@MrWelki I remember getting 1200/75 and 300/300 in the 80s.

[@geekexmachina]

Its interesting, maybe some of the differences come down to the education system in part I think in the UK the education system is much more centrally regulated. If I remember the USA can change things from state to state if you add in the more religious elements to this you then get bans on some kinds of science education, some kinds of literature this will affect people working in those fields. But also as you pointed out for the internet there is a difference between rural and urban USA maybe this also Affects book writing, education, and people is the science field given the measurements are per head.

[@peterjf7723]

I have the impression school pupils in the US are not expected to have ideas of their own and be able to support those ideas until they get to university. The GOP in Texas actually tried (unsuccessfully as far as I know) to ban the teaching of thinking skills in schools, in case it led children to question parental and religious authority. Here in the UK, we’ve started to teach metacognition - how to think about how you think - at primary school (ages 7-11).

[@catherinewilkins2760]

IQ is not related to education, we do have some anomalies on IQ, peculiar to UK, which no one has been able to explain.

[@jenniferevans5192]

Wow I learnt a lot today and Im a granny living in England. Thank you.

[@timberwolf5211]

The Union Flag is on the State flag of Hawaii, because, basically we did what we always did and claimed it. I vaguely remember something about the either the British allowed, a native Hawaian Queen to rule, as a puppet, or we left them to run it, I'm not sure. But there was a queen in place, ruling her people. At the time there were a lot of Americans living on the islands, and had businesses they had built up, so when they thought that all the white people were going to be kicked off the islands, they staged at coup, and took over the government and deposed the Queen. Claiming the islands for the US. Which is why President Clinton issued a formal apology to the people of Hawaii, for illegally over throwing the sovereign nation of Hawaii. But because of our previous claim to the islands, our flag was incorporated into their flag.

[@williamwilkes9873]

Size of u.s.a., miñds............?

[@markjones9693]

Hi … just a note to again say love the videos you do . I hope you visit one day

[@margaretnicol3423]

Can you take a look at 'how Scotland invented the modern world' please?

[@helenbailey8419]

All the Mc's all over the world.McDonalds,McAlpine,etcIncredible engineers.

[@TheCrusader1000]

Good morning from Liverpool England. Hope your having a good weekend. Very interesting video. You have a good catalogue.

[@iriscollins7583]

Big isn't always best.

[@franki7]

That bit about wind power is utter rubbish, we don't supply enough power for our own country let alone anyone else, when the wind stops the turbines stop, we need to carry on drilling in the north sea and start fracking.

[@ImpaledGryphon]

i'm sat here in a small northern english town on a 1 gigabit internet connection a little faster than a rural american town i think (recently upgraded from 350mbit), the intelligence one surprises me a bit i thought the us would have been lower as in the 70's a large "brain drain" took place with people fleeing the uk's government, unions and taxation problems thus boosting the american score but those people would now be retired or even dead, maybe some of it rubbed off on americans.

[@dmtenlightenment]

The UK has the Largest offshore wind farm in the world and apparently produces more than enough power to sell to other counties, yet our energy bills have just increased by 80% 🤔

[@dorothysimpson2804]

The UK invented the Internet!

[@peterjf7723]

The education differences between the US and UK may be in part due to differences in teaching. The US education system in many (not all) states, prioritises rote learning rather than teaching kids how to actually think. The GOP in Texas actually tried (unsuccessfully as far as I know) to ban the teaching of thinking skills in schools, in case it led children to question parental and religious authority. Whereas in the UK, we’ve started to teach metacognition - how to think about how you think - at primary school (ages 7-11). English A-Levels are considered equivalent to 2nd year at a US university and 1st year at a Scottish one.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

No where; can I find any reference saying that A-levels are equivalent to 2nd Yr Uni but I can find some that say that Scotland's Advanced Highers (used to be called Sixth Year Studies or SYS), are the equivalent of 1st Yr Uni level. As far as I can remember Adv Highers have always been at a 'higher' level of education than A-levels (which are equivalent to Highers, though sometimes more recognised ).

[@leehallam9365]

On off shore wind farms, we do have a lot more sea compared to land than the US. But I don't know where the energy export idea comes from, we import energy, not just fossil fuels but electricity.

[@chitster]

The US has a much larger coastal area than the UK, they have a lot more sea than we do, they even have massive lakes that could be used for wind farms, the reason is they put most of their money into their military and everything else is secondary

[@markparsons2864]

Very good video and to be fair, there wasn't really a massive gap between UK & US in some of those cases.

[@florrie8767]

Id like to see which countries had highest iq out of interest

[@JJfromPhilly67]

The English Speaking World is the best. USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand at the top. The USA does have roundabouts.

[@cireenasimcox1081]

Hey, College-man. It was so obvious that you hadn't ever given any thought to these kinds of metrics that I felt dreadfully sorry you stumbled onto all of this in one small video...and in public! But as a couple of people said: you - and other Reacters - are having an impact. Your online presence is making people more aware of how the world works; making people question; helping to break the grip that American Exceptionalism and State-sanctioned religion has had on the Education system post-WWII. And by making friends & acquaintances in other cultures you're able to tap into the opinions and mind-states; the experiences & lifestyles; the feelings of unity and responsibilities, we *all* share across the globe. That's huge!! I was invited to teach at a Uni in China for one year: stayed for 7. Because the people I was teaching were the first generation to get to Uni since Opening & Expansion & the One Child Policy. And they all went through the same things as soon as they learned about the outside world. They too learned that things they'd believed since they were tiny were incorrect. They too found it difficult to accept that the rest of the world didn't look at them the way they'd always been told that they did. They learned that theirs was not the greatest country in the world. That too, is huge. But for most of us? We *know* we aren't the greatest. Our education doesn't just stick to the good bits. Nor does that of our neighbours around the world. And our media look outward, as well as inward. Thus we learn just how bad we are as we go: it isn't revealed to us all in a ten min. video! But no matter how we learn about our country's shortcomings - the next, positive step is to start thinking about how they can be fixed.

[@scottirvine121]

You are spot on with the internet speed being related to rural areas and besides both countries are far quicker than that now

[@nick7076]

Happy birthday to the WWW. Tim Bernards-Lee published his outline document on hypertext linked documents 33 years ago yesterday.

[@Jp67-n6b]

Ahem, it’s very rural in the uk too 😂

[@pb6198]

London=England England=Europe Europe=country 😜😂😂

[@cdwyer737]

Hey @ItsJPS I don't know if you're aware but the song you had playing in the background "Rule Brittainia" we kinda phased that song out because of it's roots in slavery. Maybbe you should do the same...

[@ajx8083]

Hiya, Love Your Stuff. This vid you show is Wrong In at least 6 Facts?!! 3 Make No Common sense. Just all wrong really!! Find a Better Review Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeese x moan over, Have a Great Day mate.

[@BecomeConsciousNow]

This was a nonsense video, especially using words like "superiority" lol. Also, using the word "Fact" is very debatable lol.

[@geoffwheadon2897]

Good morning young man, County Durham here.

[@OpticalTurnkey]

So patronising.

[@nightowl5395]

@@OpticalTurnkey no....that comment doesn't seem patronising....it is just a greeting... 🤔

[@Ionabrodie69]

@@OpticalTurnkey Exactly HOW is that patronising..? He is greeting Joel .. 🙄🇬🇧

[@Ionabrodie69]

Snap.. County Durham resident here also 😂👍

[@OpticalTurnkey]

@@Ionabrodie69 young man. No need.

[@britbazza3568]

Everything 😂🤣😂🤣😂 Seriously though the IQ one in the list..don't forget the UK is the most inventive nation on the planet. The UK has virtually invented everything in the modern world since the Industrial Revolution we even invented that too. As for the books and Authors part the USA is only around 400 yrs old the UK on its various guises is over 1000 yrs old so we effectively would have effectively had double the time and some for great writers of book, plays etc etc

[@tahiti1]

Why does speaker go on about James Bond as No2 global film franchise on list, and not mention No1 global franchise which is also British kade and produced?

[@cat-ef7ry]

Wind power….any one else immediately think of farting power in the UK? Or was that just my IQ of 100 😀

[@julesfromdevon5568]

Yes JP, but it also has far more financial resources and the US simply hasn't put enough money into rolling out the internet network quick enough. Those average speeds will have been in mainly metro areas.

[@roxannekean6025]

That's because we have been too busy being the world's policemen for the past 77 years.

[@minnie5301]

Re the intelligence it's not really a fair judgement. If you take out the Karen's the US average would go up significantly.

[@allygolding3647]

I'm a Brit, don't look at that info literally it depends who published the program!! :))))

[@dogwithwigwamz.7320]

We do everything better than you do, with the possible exception of the Law ( English Common Law ) and living on the moon.

[@CMenzy]

Maybe in intelligence but I'm thick as mud so what do I know... Rule Britannia

[@paulhayday8212]

It’s the UNION FLAG NOT jack. The Union Jack only flies on boats

[@TheSnowdogsShorts]

Another thing that is better in the UK, and it is once more because we are a smaller country. Amazon 2 day delivery, is 1 day delivery in the UK. I can order something before 11pm in the evening, and it will arrive the next day, sometimes even in the morning. I a few cities, you can even get same day delivery.

[@juleseyg]

We have better electricity supply when I’m in CT or MT visiting family their kettle take forever to boil 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@richardsoper777]

Yes! JPS back to his best..reaction video's. I know music gets you views..but sorry to say, boring as a veiwer

[@emmahowells8334]

There videos called the Dumbest Thing an American has ever said to you, maybe react to that Joel, see what you think?.😊

[@adrilyst5]

But the way in the US most of the schooling/education falls on state governments so there are slight differences in our education depending on the state you live in. I think that’s part of the problem, there’s no nationwide educational plan/curriculum/structure etc.

[@donnalee4928]

When you put two fingers up in what you think is a peace sign, I have to say it's the wrong way around and actually a British insult. Lol. It's called "flicking the vee".

[@revbenf6870]

If the film relies on 2015 data, then most of the segments if not all are out of date. I would expect the Internet speed to have changed significantly. President Bidens recent infrastructure bill should help address Internet coverage across the US as its about investment in stuff needed by everyone, not just the rich few...

[@mickylove76]

The US education system has been on a downward decline for generations. Poor literacy, numeracy and science literacy, poor understanding of the world outside its bubble. The idea exists that everyones opinion is equally valid, no matter how ignorant one is about something. Also the sheer religiosity, and substitution of critical thinking skills with magic and wishful thinking makes it impossible to really move forward as a society.