Americans Failing At Simple Geography For 11 Minutes Straight

I spent the past few years quizzing Americans on geography. Many times they couldn't answer simple questions, like naming three countries outside of the Americas. Here's some highlights. This video is not meant to bash Americans but to raise awareness about the education system and to hopefully inspire people to educate themselves on general knowledge. I never laugh at an American for their lack of knowledge. If I laugh, it's only because they either rage quit or because I found the answer funny (in a positive way).
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[@ImBokeh]

California, Paris, California

[@lingualizer]

classic

[@ImBokeh]

@@lingualizer I rewatched like 4 times, your face killed me

[@jamesavakian4977]

Fun fact: Average IQ in California is 95. Los Angeles Democrats 89

[@Jarwin-GG]

@@jamesavakian4977 could have figured

[@Breadster]

I watched this bit so many times

[@GabrielPalOfficial]

Here in Greece, the schools teach the six-continent combined-America model. And Australia is referred as Oceania.

[@zackkatopodis9665]

That’s very interesting! I always found his phrasing of outside of America confusing as an US citizen precisely because in the US we use “America” colloquially for the USA, and North/South America or “the Americas” for the continents. So when people start listing Canada, Mexico, Bolivia, Panama, etc., and he says “no outside of America” I sense the miscommunication. Of course I don’t think that would have helped many people in this case but I’ve seen it trip people up who do know geography fairly well.

[@Ignacio-MV]

Same in Chile, and almost most of The Americas as far as I know

[@TheCriminalViolin]

I wish the world would stop teaching Europe is a continent, since that's never been true once. It's a subcontinent. But yeah, the variability in what is taught when and where with respect to the Americas in the continent model is brutal. Sometimes they teach Central America is North America, sometimes they teach it's south, others teach it correctly as a subcontinent. Some place Mexico in Central America, most place it in North America, and others place it in South America. It just makes zero sense.

[@TheCriminalViolin]

@@zackkatopodis9665 As a fellow American (Oregonian), I do NOT ever have the same experience or issue with the "outside America", because I do not ever identify this country as America. Never have, never will as it takes a big ego to do, and confuses people. It's just the US. That's it. And it's a country in North America, or, America. If anyone says "America", I associate it by default with both north & south, and thus Central America too. But technically, Oregonians are unique in that we're also the only people in the US who only say "we're from Oregon" or "we're Oregonians", and never "we're from the states" "we're American", or the like, so that _MIGHT_ play a part in that for me.

[@CarlosEduardoSchneiderZanatti]

Same here in Latin America

[@619WWEFAN]

2:55 - 4:02 We all encountered people like this before. I’d have just left him immediately, you got the tolerance of a saint putting up with him 😂

[@lingualizer]

trying my best

[@radorigami]

As an American, I don't claim him as one of us

[@C_In_Outlaw3817]

The one with the red curly hair was gaslighting you so hard to cover up his stupidity

[@Jay_and_Meeka]

i've never been more frustrated watching something 🤣

[@tonybaihao4178]

That's also one of the reasons why I hate the fact only the USA is considered just "America", as if the rest of the continent in the 6-continent model (single America) didn't count as America. When Amerigo Vespucci set foot on the giant continent, he mainly went to the southern part, so his name should have meaning.

[@OddSwiftGoose]

dont believe it on all social media

[@OddSwiftGoose]

@@Jay_and_Meeka dont believe it on all social media

[@OddSwiftGoose]

@@tonybaihao4178 dont believe it on all social media

[@619WWEFAN]

It’s not really that they get the questions wrong, rather how overly confident some of them get and they hate being corrected / learning. It somewhat comes across as arrogant

[@TheCriminalViolin]

That's the signature American mentality and attitude. Land of the Ignorant, Home of the Arrogant as I always say! (I really hate this country sometimes)

[@RadexONFunGaming1]

In this context I am grateful for even knowing Czechoslovakia as a thing 6:57. If it is outside Europe it is a miracle even this knowledge and I can't blame them, the split was so peaceful that many people haven't even realised it. I am sure that even some elders from the UK think that here is still Czechoslovakia.

[@Aidansands2]

Sure my well educated parents continuously say czechoslovakia by accident anyway. They know they split up they just forget it ig

[@TheCriminalViolin]

I quickly learned of it when I was very little. The maps and atlases changed overnight, so that helped a lot. Never was confused about it. The split was also WAY later than most people realize. I think it happened in 96 or 97, which made me 2 or 3 when it happened funny enough. For the record I am a Oregonian, so far outside Europe.

[@RadexONFunGaming1]

@@TheCriminalViolin Thank you for sharing your experience. Just I have to correct you. Split happened in 1.1.1993 - three years and a few days after comunism (more like socialism in reality) regime falled. That is just to clarify the context.

[@TheCriminalViolin]

@@RadexONFunGaming1 I appreciate that! And yes, the USSR was in fact self-proclaimed Socialist, given that is literally one of the S' in their name/acronym. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Of course it's hotly contested and argued if anything the world has seen (including with the USSR) was anywhere remotely related or close to true socialism in the first place. *_SIGH_*

[@aaaaaa-aaa]

ngl of all the countries he could say he said a outdated country LOL

[@evilbee94]

You should have said “outside THE americas” because it’s kinda confusing when you say “outside of America” because that is the most common word for the USA

[@user-oc9ks3oj6s]

They still are ignorant

[@silverdrumvideo]

Exactly

[@baronvonjo1929]

I don't understand how our education system can create some of the smartest people on the planet who have made some crazy technology while at the same time creating this. Remember one teacher lost his mind when he realized a 9th grader didnt know what or where the Atlantic Ocean was. I had school with that kid since elementary and we had maps and went over history involving that ocean so many times. It was crazy.

[@Flawaffles]

U guys import smart people from other countries. Innovation happens in Asia

[@v7throttle]

'Name a country' *'Obama'*

[@lingualizer]

the only right answer

[@OddSwiftGoose]

dont believe it on all social media

[@lentilsoup460]

No Obama is a real country silly, it's next to Yemen. Maybe look at a map next time?​@@OddSwiftGoose

[@HarlenEAP]

@@lentilsoup460 that's oman, however there's an actual city in japan called obama

[@v7throttle]

@@HarlenEAP Oman? I thought it was Obrador?

[@ZapperRS]

American education system 101

[@OddSwiftGoose]

dont believe it on all social media

[@HappytreeLuis]

It has got to be more than that... It's so easy to pick up all of this information from movies, and TV-shows even.

[@ashtinpeaks9972]

Fuck off, European cunts are such arrogant pricks sometimes. We also have some of the smartest people in the fucking world. Congrats on highlighting dumbasses that waste their time on omegale congrats. God you guys are fucking pricks

[@Mount.Troglodyte]

@@HappytreeLuisTheres almost a resistance to want to learn at all with a lot of them I’ve noticed.

[@carsonsmith6635]

@@Mount.Troglodytebro this is only social media this is nothing like real life

[@aurelianobuendia549]

Wait a few years and you'll have the opportunity to do the same in Europe.

[@OddSwiftGoose]

dont believe it on all social media

[@ashtinpeaks9972]

You don't have to wait plenty of dumbasses in Europe. Turns out when you select only dumbasses to put in your video you only get dumbases because. 1. You get more views 2. You get to act superior

[@joaquinfernandez3347]

Let's be honest, shaming ignorant people at geography is so funny

[@GolditoCruzPR]

Cherry picking

[@user-cw9np3ck3g]

It is interesting that we in Russia learn at school that there is 6 continents and that Europe and Asia are a single continent Eurasia, which frankly makes sense to me. We can divide Europe and Asia, but we call parts of the world (части света), not continents. It seems to me, there is no such category in English.

[@TheCriminalViolin]

I agree with this. Eurasia is very real, Europe and Asia are in fact subcontinents, and I don't even know when the hell the US began to teach they were somehow their own continents, but it was sometime while I was home-schooled (so no earlier than 2006) or after I would have graduated (2012). It is a HUGE peeve for me as a Geography and map nut myself. And it makes absolutely zero logical sense. I mean the US teaches that not only is North and South America their own continents (which they are), they unlike most of the world, teach & know that Central America is a subcontinent of both north & south. So that makes them hypocritical and contradict themselves teaching Europe is a full continent.

[@Verbalaesthet]

Ich hab damals noch in der Schule gelernt, dass es 5 Kontinente gibt: Europa, Asien, Afrika, Australien und Amerika.

[@lingualizer]

passt doch, gibt unterschiedlich viele Kontinente, je nachdem, wo du zur Schule gegangen bist

[@dieschachbrettfee2060]

Mein Vater hat mir beigebracht, dass es fünf Kontinente gibt, in der Schule habe ich dann aber gelernt (so um 2007), dass es sieben sind. 8:33 „Antarctica, America, Africa, Asia“ „Three left.“ Wie sind da noch drei übrig?

[@Xansey]

this dude with "there are any free nations except for america" got me

[@OddSwiftGoose]

dont believe it on all social media

[@aaronfllynne]

3:11 you made a mistake here, 197 countries not 179

[@longestvideoever]

Yeah this guy such a know it all he thinks cuba is in south america.

[@kfitch42]

I think some of the confusion comes from the fact that to Americans, America means U.S.A. So when you say "outside of America", they hear "outside of the USA". If you want to refer to North and South America together you say "the Americas".

[@spiceupat2000]

Yup.

[@curly_bill]

Yeah a lot of the world just refers to US as America

[@TheCriminalViolin]

Which as a Oregonian, I really hate.

[@vasypowerhouse92]

6:57 NO SHOT I MET ANOTHER PERSON WHO THINKS CZECHOSLOVAKIA STILL EXISTS!!!!!(the other one was in a video where a guy asked random people to name some flags and that girl said ,,Czechoslovakia" to Spain flag.... CZECHOSLOVAKIA DOESNT EXIST ANYMORE FOR 30 YEARS!)

[@LesnikSan]

it still exists in our hearts

[@alexanderhoak]

One thing to note, since it threw a lot of people off here, is that in English (esp. American English. but others as well), saying "America" typically refers to the USA, whereas "The Americas" refers to the supercontinent. That's why so many people were confused when Canada was wrong. It unintentionally was more of a trick question, based on knowing how other language speakers perceive the difference, rather than a straight forward geography question.

[@bonbahoue]

@Lingualizer : The question of the number of continents remains open: seven by convention (Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, Oceania), three in the strict sense of the definition (America, Antarctica, Eufrasia) and for a long time it was taught at school there were 5 continents (Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania). Antarctica was considered a southern land. This is why when you ask the question for number of continents the answers can be different depending on the age and country of the person.

[@Neo11020]

6:54 cuba isnt in south america😅

[@lingualizer]

yeah that's my bad haha

[@seannikolic8223]

When we studied geography , we learned that America is one continent (no north and south). So if there's South and North America... then to which continent Central America belongs?

[@raweggwhite]

Central America is part of North America​@@seannikolic8223

[@OddSwiftGoose]

@@raweggwhite dont believe it on all social media

[@thalassophile_artist]

@@seannikolic8223 north america....

[@asja4216]

I know: Russia 🇷🇺, India 🇮🇳 and Rwanda 🇷🇼. There are 7 continents: Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, North America, Australia and Antarctica. BTW, I dont hate Americans for not knowing something 🇧🇦❤️🇺🇲

[@Flawaffles]

oof

[@klaud7311]

I judge them not by how much they know, but by how content they are with what they know.

[@Tri-Ant]

This is so sad tbh

[@rguz333]

@Lingualizer I'm curious. In your country, do you learn that the Caribbean is part of South America? In live in the USA and here we are taught the Caribbean is a region distinct from the Americas, but many times for the sake of convenience, it is often categorized as a sub-region of North America.

[@silverdrumvideo]

Back when I was a kid, we were taught that America consisted of three different continents - North, Central, and South.

[@ati5477]

„Name a Country- auschwitz „😳😳😳

[@djendjendjendjendjen9442]

Cherry-picking aside it’s still a lot of cases of this happening

[@Lasieee]

“Name a continent” “australia” “that’s correct” mfw

[@Rusich20]

Washington, North Korea, Africa

[@daxi34]

I like how the guy licking a microphone answered almost perfectly

[@Cez189]

F in chat... Awesome video! 👀

[@OddSwiftGoose]

dont believe it on all social media

[@Cez189]

F in chat for not knowing basic knowledge, in this case the countries, and the continents

[@TheDarkCeratosaurus]

0:19 are they ok? holy shit lmao XD

[@PierrePelletier1994]

@lingualizer There are 12 countries in South America, Cuba and Puerto Rico are part of North America, not South

[@GourangaPL]

any similar service running nowdays?

[@OddSwiftGoose]

dont believe it on all social media

[@lingualizer]

Ome.tv is the best option currently

[@_Shadbolt_]

3:36 "I said outside of America" is deliberately misleading though. It's very unusual in English to describe The Americas as "America" so the question is a bit unfair to this kid. The word "America" in the the English language is widely regarded to refer to the USA, whether or not you're American yourself. Speakers of latin languages, especially Spanish, tend not to make the distinction between the 2 two continents, and refer to them both as simply "America" - but you're not speaking Spanish so it's very confusing to ask the question this way. It would be more fair to say "outside of the Americas" or to phrase it even more fairly "outside of North or South America". I'm British and believe me I'm the first to point out the arrogance of US exceptionalism and insularism - but defining North and South America as "America" is, for all practical purposes, linguistically wrong.

[@trevora5568]

Thank you, I was going to type out basically this but you saved me some time. Using terminology that US Americans (bored teenagers on omegle) don't use, for a video to make them look dumb is just disingenuous

[@_Shadbolt_]

That "America" thing really annoys me! I think it's really obvious when there literally isn't another demonym

[@Pyrofan12]

Bei manchen hab ich mich schon gefragt, ob die absichtlich falsch geantwortet haben...

[@gatiskevans5516]

Actually Cuba and Puerto Rico (Antilles) technically is in North America not South America. Also number of continents is different based what you are taught in schools. It could be from 4 up to 7. Basically it depends how strictly you divide borders of continents (The Americas and Afroeurasia for example).

[@Flawaffles]

7 is the number of continents taught in America

[@gatiskevans5516]

@@Flawaffles here in my country Latvia we are taught 7 too. I just know that this isn't really a global consensus. I think in France they teach 5 continents for example. Which is interesting how ones view of the world can be different based on a country you live in.

[@TheCriminalViolin]

@@Flawaffles It actually depends on where in the US. Seriously. It's so fucking annoying and illogical that it varies, but it does. One of my many peeves with the geography community as a Geography nut. It especially depends when it comes down to things like subcontinents. Is Mexico North or South America? Or you may have been taught it is Central America depending on where in the US you get taught. And Central America itself? Well, sometimes it's still a stand alone subcontinent with Mexico attached, sometimes without, or it's part of South America, part of North America... it's exhausting and nonsensical.

[@Magmabbx]

i really wanna know how he recovered from this

[@PoojaK-su8jx]

Wait but what is there in their syllabus and how do they pass if they don't know all of this ?

[@OddSwiftGoose]

dont believe it on all social media

[@TheCriminalViolin]

In the US, it almost doesn't even matter if you completely flunk these subjects to get your high school diploma and graduate. It is considered a "unimportant" subject here and almost nobody pays any attention either since they themselves do not care at all about this topic. They see it in the category with Transit, logistics, and other similar topics - Boring and "why should I care? it's useless anyway!". That's the category, sadly. The irony I love those exact topics, but hate most of the ones that are considered important, and ironically that most people here do pay attention to themselves. My brain and me zone out or just end up not trying due to it being boring, uninteresting and otherwise incapable of doing the work.

[@Salmon-rm3tv]

I like it how one of the guys tried to argue about the America thing when he needed an explanation on what a country is

[@bethesdagamer7971]

6:54 This is the only time I’ve heard Lingualizer be wrong about Geography.

[@Garcwyn]

The audacity of these people it’s something else

[@soulmax6]

I love how you use the term 'U.S. Americans' indicating that the people from the U.S. doesn't represent whole Americans

[@endeavor3406]

Oh hell nah, she doesn't even know what country she lives in? 💀

[@joaocabral3143]

Puerto Rico is not in South America bro.. . 😮

[@Lasieee]

11:03 did he just say Auschwitz is a city?….

[@wifisukks]

hard to watch but love your videos lol

[@Bogmore1]

Maybe put a running total of how many people got it wrong and how many got it right.

[@maxdog1299]

It’s 3:00am in the US and he’s talking to teenagers that are wasted What a cool guy

[@lingualizer]

I usually record my videos when it's late night CET, meaning it's afternoon in the US

[@Skulligh]

My American friend asked me if we have washing machines in Europe because her history teacher told them that we don’t have and we wash our clothes in the river

[@hartmannjano2169]

6:54 In WHERE??!?

[@Frotheru_The_Dragon]

In Obama

[@carsonsmith6635]

Yesss these r bsck finally

[@masti4ara]

God, they're so ignorant! "What's a country?", "What's a continent?" They think a country is a continent. 😄 But it's not their fault...

[@SofaMuncher]

Ohh buddy you should quiz in Vancouver Canada I could smoke this test because I am a nerd

[@daniel3139]

cuba is in south america??

[@ChadKakashi]

0:50 this guy is next level.

[@bUtLUtu]

10:47 WHAT’S THIS GUY DOING LOL

[@CMC007]

I had to stop halfway. I was losing brain cells.

[@meloman0027]

Me too. They are just so fucking stupid. OMG. Like my mom who thinks that Paris is a country, and Africa is one big country too.

[@pixelexi]

That’s ‘Merica right there 🇺🇸🦅💥

[@tristanvadimterranova8053]

Man, I know a European who thinks he swam in the Indian ocean when he was in Brazil. I even met a guy who was convinced Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines were "Chinese islands". And that dude who told me I had made up the name of Idaho... The truth is that 95% of people suck at geography. Not only Americans. Ps: I'm European.

[@OnlyFlans42]

"China correct, Hong Kong kong.. I'll let it pass" avoiding conflict well! 😉

[@laineski26]

This is effin torturous

[@User-nj9ti]

Extraño lo de las Américas , porque se enseña que hay 3 ,norte América, sud América y América Central. No tengo a ganas de escribir en inglés

[@OddSwiftGoose]

dont believe it on all social media

[@alexanderhoak]

Typically, Central America and North America are combined.

[@lydiakaraiskou1421]

5:54 Do you realize that according to that definition Antarctica is not a Continent?

[@Flechashe]

You referred to the country as "America" multiple times but when you asked them to name a country "outside of America" you expected them to assume you were referring to the continents and not their country, which is widely known by that name, that's unfair

[@TungNguyen-te7kb]

hi what platform did use?

[@lingualizer]

that was Omegle before it shut down!

[@MShmalamala]

America is often used to mean the US, although you're technically correct when you say Argentina is in America. The term "Americans" is always used to refer to people living in the US. And Cuba is in North America.

[@bethesdagamer7971]

To be fair, “outside America” means outside the U.S. to Americans. Outside North and South America would make more sense to them. But let’s be real, a lot of them would still get it wrong.

[@jfrancobelge]

On a trip in the U.S. years ago, hearing my foreign accent one store employee in Arizona asked where I was from and why I was there. I said "France". She replied: "Oh, you've been to Europe then?". Actually, I live in Europe...

[@lisgyldenhr4327]

Actually there are 8 continents. In 2017 scientists from New Zealand found out that Oceania is 2 continents. So now the list of Continents is: Africa, Asia Antartica, Europa, North America, South America, Oceania ( Australia some call it) and Zealandia.

[@okansiviloglu5296]

These people makes me mad unbelieveable

[@leosmi7h278]

Australia is a country, not a continent. And north and south america are the same continent. American continent.

[@user-pv6vn9jd3c]

1:17 - Europe is a continent - Yeah, I know

[@yanagelfand4337]

Okay, but honestly, "what counts as a country" is a legit question. You yourself count both UK and Scotland as a correct answer, so there's clearly an issue here. And there are definitely no definitive answers about how many countries there are.

[@user-oc9ks3oj6s]

9:10 @?

[@dmitrii__63]

Cuba and Puerto Rico are in North America, not South

[@_Shadbolt_]

6:54 pretty sure Cuba is in North America 😅

[@moonix9797]

I'm pretty sure there are more reasons why Omegle shut down 😂

[@magnifriedisalive]

Wdf all they saying canada is a continent. Im sure thats taught in american schools

[@The_pokemon_guy_]

how can't americans do the simplest geography tasks 😭

[@kamerafreak3492]

...do US-Americans have geography classes?

[@hcalo]

How many American countries are in The Americas (North and South America)?....

[@pw3891]

they answer, and I feel ashamed for them

[@curly_bill]

We’re cooked

[@rewae]

3:12 179 countries 🤨

[@lingualizer]

I meant 197

[@averageshounenenjoyer5131]

What happened to Your shorts?

[@o_s-24]

He moved them to another channel

[@lingualizer]

Had to move them because my long format videos were/are suffering from the Shorts

[@Krstevv_7]

10:46 what the hell broooo

[@Alex.The.Lionnnnn]

You could have said "the Americas" to be fair. They still wouldn't have a damn clue, but it means you don't sound ignorant. 😉😝

[@someone_nowhere]

Why are Europe and Asia 2 continents?? I was always taught that they are parts of the Eurasia continent...

[@alessandroc.4543]

It's because of the huge cultural differences. But it's not wrong to consider them as a single continent.

[@LesnikSan]

@@alessandroc.4543How it's not wrong? There are no water masses like oceans between Europe and Asia, hence it's one continent

[@someone_nowhere]

@@alessandroc.4543 i may call it wrong (english is not my native language), but there are two different things: continents and "parts of the world". The last thing is about different cultures and here we have Europe and asia as two different parts. But in terms of continents we can't divide them in two parts

[@alessandroc.4543]

@@someone_nowhere Yes yes, you're right. By the definition of continent, asia and europe should be eurasia. However, it is convention to consider them as separate continents due to the very different cultures. Conventions in science are definitions for which everyone decides to agree with. This is the case for the separation of europe and asia.

[@someone_nowhere]

@@alessandroc.4543 is there some document about it? I assume that this differs from country to country. As i sad, in my school it was a mistake and we have a different term for the cultural division of the world

[@OneeUp1]

Very hard watch, teens that don't know where they live is crazy

[@TheGlobalAtlas]

The Caribbean is in North America

[@zombiefied3251]

Your number of continents is wrong too, you forgot new zealand

[@josecuervo311]

No wonder your viewership went down.

[@lingualizer]

It's because of my Shorts, unfortunately

[@miguellardizabal4077]

I got a headache hearing some of their answers.

[@viceroynone941]

Ask them about genders, they'll give you 100s. Probably 1000 more that are yet to be launched.

[@cs2clips2137]

11:02 ☠️☠️☠️☠️

[@22poopoo]

'Thats just sad' ..'exactly'

[@johanna_na]

Good lord.... I mean I understand if someone wouldn't remember all 7 continents (for example forgetting Antarctica or not knowing if it's Oceania or Australia) but not knowing what continents are all together is astonishing... And countries... I would forgive if one didn't remember which continent some country is in (for example thinking that Benin would be in Asia) but not knowing any countries is crazy... We were taught all the countries and their capitals in lower grades in school. Goes without saying that I would have forgotten so many of them if I wouldn't study them every now and then. But I guess the educational system in Northern Europe has been a little different. But mark my words, the system is starting to fail. Schools are getting rid of separate classrooms, and instead put all students in the same space divided by curtains. Students can hear what is taught on the other side of the curtain. Students with ADHD and other problems don't get support in a quiet calm space. What is the result? Massive issues in concentration. Hence kids can't focus and can't learn.

[@DeclanM32]

"im racist" i felt that..