Are Americans Dumber than the Rest of the World? | American Reacts

[@gaifawcett9760]

It's not that they are smarter. It's about what is taught at school. Unfortunately, America is taught that they are the world.

[@ruthgiles8926]

It does seem that way. I don't know how many times I have seen examples of Americans on the internet assuming that a post from somewhere else is actually from the USA and making some absurd comment that exposes their ignorance about the rest of the planet. Very sad

[@spinasoul]

Literally but thats easier for them, because convicing them that their country is "unique" and "the most developed" and that states are "each like its own country!" Makes things easier when you are at war because they feel their country "must always be right". Ignorance is a bliss and great for blind nacionalism

[@jamesblack9746]

It appears our education system has been hijacked and the students are not taught about world history or geography as the teachers are more concerned about trans stuff.

[@to_loww]

It's not only school, it's also what's (not) considered newsworthy and entertaining.

[@patrickporter6536]

School should just open you up for further learning.

[@yossal2608]

I am from the UK and have a relative who teaches in America. The problem is the education system, not that people are dumber.

[@mikeg.4211]

You hit the nail on the head. Our primary and secondary education system has been a complete failure for decades now. I raised 4 kids and had to teach them a lot myself. Math, history, civics, geography, critical thinking, literature, even basic grammar and spelling are non-existent. This explains why this country has so easily fallen for Russian and right wing propaganda.

[@CeridwenKeeley]

Right. Schools have been failing American kids for decades. It's so bad even teachers don't know much.

[@carlbernard7615]

💯

[@thehapagirl92]

True. That’s why as Americans we need to continue educating ourselves after college and we need to go to college. Go to community college if you can’t afford a four year and then transfer

[@Afrikoe]

By definition the average intelligence of americans is the same as the rest of the world.

[@taakelur]

India does actually have more people now than China. Happened recently, though.

[@jameslewis2635]

Yes, but that is a recent phenomenon.

[@nicksykes4575]

It could be less recent than you think, apparently the Chinese government population figures have been exaggerated for some years. Just like all official figures, they're whatever the CCP want them to be.

[@Makapaa]

@@jameslewis2635 Still not wrong. The original video was uploaded like.. 7 or so years ago so it might've not been official yet back then but now: Either of "China" or "India" answers could be seen as "true" if the timeframe is not specified.

[@ebbhead20]

​@@jameslewis2635 glad you said that as i was sure India was about to overtake a while back..

[@josephturner7569]

Good effort.

[@MoodyMarco-vj3oe]

I live in Scotland and I would expect most primary school age children here in the UK would get all of these right.

[@djdissi]

And Canadian children 🇨🇦

[@ghz24]

I want to test my grandkids now. I would guess they would miss brexit, Portuguese and the chancellor of Germany. (And really hope they would get the rest) But I'm curious now. (US)

[@rayaqueen9657]

​@@ghz24 update us please 😊

[@mysticgirl]

Norwegian kids too

[@sammysock]

Agreed

[@catlover0160]

We call it ‘general knowledge’!!! 🤣🇬🇧

[@davefrench3608]

But they can tell you their state flower. When I spent some time in the US aged 16 in the mid 70s they were shocked at my knowledge and I was shocked at their ignorance Nowadays it’s worse, knowledge is for geeks, and ignorance celebrated

[@brettrobinson2901]

​@@davefrench3608Gotta celebrate sumpin....

[@Thatgirl1973]

American here...we also call it general knowledge. Or should I say, we did. Unfortunately, I think the arguable decline-over the past several decades-of a well-rounded education in the US is palpable. The focus seems to be on training for 'standardized tests' rather than actually learning anything. If you've never seen the movie 'Idiocracy'...do. It's a painful peek at the future of this country. And that reality is so painful, there's nothing else to do but 😃😀😄😆😂🤣!!!

[@susansmiles2242]

No dear Angela Merkle is not the German equivalent to Hilary Clinton she is the equivalent to BILL Clinton

[@ylfe8061]

"We don't know about the world but we know about America" Dude, everyone know about their own country. That's not an excuse for being an ignorant about the rest of the world.

[@elfishmoss1457]

True, those who know about the rest of the world don't immediately sacrifice knowing about their own country

[@LaraGemini]

The education system in the USA is so poor, it is hardly surprising.

[@reggriffiths5769]

I beg to differ @ylfe8061. I asked two questions (see above) about America that all Americans should know, but not one was able to do so. The truth is that the US is, and has always been a myopic nation, knowing little of what's outside its own State, never mind the rest of the world. From cradle to grave you are only taught what the governments want you to know. It's partly your own (people's) fault because you have no interest in anything outside of your own borders.

[@frombrum]

i've met americans who don't know anything outside their state

[@elfishmoss1457]

@@frombrum you spelled know as 'no'

[@emmaavauntie]

Americans are not, 'just dumb.' They are as intelligent as the rest of the human race, I think. The problem lies, I suspect, in the lack of education to what happens in the rest of the world. I live in Canada, and it is well known in most circles, that Americans on a whole, are only interested and know what goes on within its borders. If it happens elsewhere...well, probably not that important. That is the attitude that is conveyed a lot of the time anyway.

[@thepickledpixie9052]

Scotland here, I agree. It's not an IQ thing, it's an education and lack of interest thing. There's a sort of arrogance in that they're taught from day one that the US is the greatest country in the world and that everyone wants to live there. They're so focused on the US they rarely take interest in the rest of the world. That and the fact that due to the size and geographical location many will live their whole lives without ever travelling outwith America. I think the internet has opened their eyes a bit but it's a slow process.

[@to_loww]

​@@thepickledpixie9052 It may also be due to a lack of opportunities to go abroad, as there is no mandatory paid leave in the US.

[@thepickledpixie9052]

@@to_loww Aye for sure, and the expense due to geographical location.

[@francesyancey8126]

The adage, people know about their only their stat, is in fact true in my experience.

[@lamotiengodidal6511]

You've hit the nail on the head! Even the American Narrator exhibits his country's parochial viewpoint: he describes the quiz questions as 'trivia' while non-Americans categorise the questions as 'general knowledge'.

[@stumccabe]

To be honest I consider all of those questions to be answerable by an average 15 year old. I find it depressing that any adult would get any of them wrong.

[@rayaqueen9657]

11 year old! I actually can't understand how can Tyler not know these simple obvious questions. Especially not knowing which way round the two oceans which border his own country are!!!-+4*:(:5_)++-!?!?!??!!

[@brettrobinson2901]

I'm fiddy-8 years of age...can you show me the way out of these threads?....WHERE'S THE INTRONETS DOOR!🥺

[@UTU49]

@@rayaqueen9657 Yeah, that's fair. Anyone who has BRIEFLY GLANCED at a globe in the past week could easily remember the two oceans that surround the Americas... even if they didn't already know them. It's difficult to find it acceptable to not know the two biggest oceans IN THE WORLD that both happen to be right next to your own country, considering that I've known of them since I was a little kid. Have I known what "the Atlantic" and "the Pacific" were since I was 8 years old? I'm not sure... but somewhere around then.

[@guillaumepiet4793]

@@UTU49 Furthermore, they speak so much about Pearl Harbor when speaking about ww2, which is located in central pacific. How could they ignore that ?!

[@Notts.Bloke.]

The average 15 year old in the western world is far too interested in social media to know anything about anything. Stupid af but America does everything bigger and better than the rest of the world so more stupid

[@carolynjtoday]

"ee-moo" 🤣 when the person asking the question can't pronounce the word you've got a problem - it's "eem-you"

[@CotopaxiAH1968]

It is not, it is really ee-moo as you put it. That's because it is a native word. Australians pronouncing it eem-you does not make it correct.

[@carolynjtoday]

@@CotopaxiAH1968 Ah another arrogant ignoramus. Thanks for outing yourself for others to enjoy. It's not actually an Australian word or a "native" one (I presume you mean either aboriginal or indigenous - we don't have "natives"). Thanks again I enjoyed that.😆

[@annika7310]

“Is that racist if I can’t differentiate between Asian currencies?” Is such an American sentence to say. 🤦‍♀️

[@UTU49]

If it is, then all babies are racist from birth. There's nothing wrong with not knowing things. Nobody can know everything.

[@UTU49]

I would guess that he was being at least partly tongue-in-cheek.

[@brettrobinson2901]

​@@UTU49An empty brain is a caaaalm brain....I'm so VERY caaaaaalm right now...😮

[@barryatulloch3101]

I love how this guy is so pleased with himself for guessing the pacific is the largest body of water ,but it is not between america and europe it is to the west of the US

[@Lynnwoody1]

Tyler l got it right the pacific ocean, NO you said it was the large ocean between America and Europe that's the Atlantic lol

[@sharonmartin4036]

Correct by default, lol.

[@ebbhead20]

Hes wrong often even when he thinks hes right.. Like when he reacted to CRUMP OF THE WORLD. So yeah, there's a lot of that with him.. But he doesn't see words that's not there as often as his brother..

[@Aquarium-Downunder]

mmmm? I wonder? has he got his boots on the right feet?

[@lauriewsmith1]

Right for the wrong reason

[@rayaqueen9657]

And both of these oceans literally DEFINE America 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@themachineandeye]

These questions are not a test of intelligence, they are a test of knowledge which is a very different thing.

[@pghrpg4065]

I can't imagine not knowing who Angela Merkel is. She was arguably the most powerful woman in the world for many years. She was chancellor for 16 years (admittedly, I had to look up the exact number of years).

[@djdissi]

Agree I was shocked by that one too. All the wrong answers actually... and isn't that emu question something every child could answer? 🤔🇨🇦

[@ruthgiles8926]

Quite scary that you had to think so hard about the largest body of water! Then you wondered if it was the ocean between the US and Europe (which is part of the Atlantic). Finally, you came up with the Pacific. Oh dear.

[@brettrobinson2901]

​@@ruthgiles8926 I guessed Loch Ness meself...🤨

[@UTU49]

The history of Europe and North America has involved countless trips across the Atlantic. The Pacific Ocean is the largest single object in the entire world (not including extremely general things like "the atmosphere" or "the earth's crust" or "Taylor Swift's fandom"). The fact that some fairly normal American adults know almost nothing about these two oceans is a truly scathing indictment of the degree to which the United States is both insular and ignorant. The myth of American exceptionalism is, in my opinion, one of the single most destructive concepts in the world, given how disconnected it is from reality.

[@leecarlson9713]

Sorry, but I don’t have any idea who Angela Merkel is. And so far, I have only missed one question.

[@Yandarval]

The Gaza Strip has been fought over since Israel was founded as a country. So yes, every American should know of it. As its been fought over, on and off for 70+ years.

[@lassethomassen9875]

Palestine is still not a country, wrong answer

[@stamate2na]

the Gaza Strip = Egypt in the 1950’s.

[@thepickledpixie9052]

Literally been hearing about conflict there for my whole life. I'm 52. How do people not know these things? Does the news only report US stuff there?

[@ingegerdandersson6963]

@@lassethomassen9875Sweden recognized Palestine as a country in 2014 and the UN recognized there right to be proclaimed as a state in 2012.

[@lassethomassen9875]

@@ingegerdandersson6963 Palestine has never existed as a state, but a significant number of countries recognize Palestine as a state per day. They do so even if borders are not clarified, and there are two rival governments and a legislative authority that does not get along.

[@FanOfLexi]

This is a genuine question and not intended to be a jibe. What DO American children learn about at school if they’re not being taught history, geography, current affairs, science, etc.?

[@jenchem42]

I am a former US high school chemistry teacher. While a good number of teachers DO try to TEACH things like history, current affairs, science, math, critical thinking, etc..... it is just a futile effort. Most of the students already realize that they do not have to pay ANY attention in class, they have to do NO work (not even speaking of homework - just not ANY work in class, etc) because administration will just pass them through eventually anyway. I have worked in several different high schools in NJ, and each one of them had some sort of policy that if a student had earned a grade lower than 50 at the end of each "marking period" (like a term, or semester), the LOWEST grade we were allowed to give that student for that marking period was a 50 anyway (55 in one school that I worked in - and during COVID?? 65. Everyone passes, no matter what.) Their reasoning for this is/was that the student then has a way to dig themselves out of failing the whole class for the year. I once had a girl in my class who went to Google on her phone and found the answer key to a guided inquiry learning activity we were working on in small groups in class. (These are actually excellent teaching/learning resources when properly used, but the answer keys are rampant online.) She copied every answer directly from the answer key word for word, without even paraphrasing, and I tried to give her a zero on that assignment. It went up to administration, who decided that the student was just "using her available resources wisely." This is only just ONE example, I could go on and on. Also to answer your question more completely, schools in the US don't teach much world geography. I went to school in the 1980s-1990s and we were exposed to some of it in elementary school (grades 4-5 maybe) but nothing ever after that. Now, there are a lot of high schools that do offer Geography as a class, but it's almost always like an elective you can take among other choices, not usually mandatory.

[@gregweatherup9596]

It seems American schools just teach you how to pass standardized tests.

[@GuinevereKnight]

​​@@jenchem42Thank for this comment, it is scary to hear but explains.a lot. It feels like the opposite of schools in at least Northern Europe, but I'm pretty sure most of it. So sad, schools failing they're students. For life I mean... I have worked in several schools and it would be unthinkable to do that. If schools don't care/know what they are there for...how will the students ever learn and grow?!

[@SteveTheVampire]

@@GuinevereKnight, over there, students don`t have to learn and grow, they only have to pass their graduation quickly, so they start to pay their student loans as soon as possible... They have to be aware of their surroundings only on the street, not the entire world, because you never know who will start shooting. "Will the teach shoot me? No? Then F him/her!" If their education system would have been similar to ours, teachers wouldn`t be "pressured" to let them pass, nomatter what. Scary stuff, indeed! Btw, Eastern Europe here, got all the answers right, no sweat. Best wishes from Romania!

[@vondahartsock-oneil3343]

Trust me, older generations want to know also lol. I saw a kid entering college asked about 9/11. He said he didn't know what they were talking about. Asked if he was taught about it in History class and he said NO. Pathetic.

[@martysears]

It's not solely the fault of education systems for people not having a good general knowledge. And it's not even about being dumb or smart - it's how interested people are in the rest of the world to actually learn some things about it. Everyone has an internet available to them

[@angharaddenby3389]

The difference here is that the US teaches about the US and rarely about the world. The rest of the world teaches about ALL the world. And all those questions were as easy as having a piss.

[@peacefulminimalist2028]

There's also another big difference. Our media outlets, tv, news, radio etc covers events in the whole world, unlike in USA. (with a few exceptions like CNN)

[@Donizen1]

Agree. They were all easy ones.

[@brettrobinson2901]

All an American needs to know about the rest of the world is...where there best resorts and beaches are ..🤡

[@Consumer_of_small_children]

for americans it would be as easy as taking a piss while passing a kidney stone and giving birth and youre a male.

[@billfarley9167]

I'm 90 this year. That's getting a tad harder as well.

[@steveroberts728]

I had to smile when you said that the ocean separating Europe & America is the Pacific Ocean, then claimed a correct answer. The thing that always amazes me is how Americans celebrate their lack of knowledge. They are so proud of their ignorance. „World War 2 ! Kind of a big deal ! Right”. Talk about naive understatement. Remember that most of the World team were speaking English as a second language.

[@brentwoodbay]

He thought the Atlantic was called the Pacific! Bloody Hell!

[@kathryndunn9142]

😂😂

[@bubba842]

Imagine not knowing the oceans that literally border your own country. Embarrassing.

[@tabbi888]

I was wondering when someone was going to point it out.

[@andreahalova4635]

You got the name right, but you had the wrong ocean in mind😂

[@frasergavin418]

These are 5th grade questions for heaven's sake .

[@sparky711choc]

My friend has nieces and nephews living in both the States and Canada and she says hands down, the Canadian relatives know more and are better at critical thinking etc.because they aren't always learning just to pass a standardized test. America relies too heavily on those.

[@mw-wl2hm]

Thanks! (We think so too 🇨🇦)

[@Jcs57]

That’s funny you thinking everyone is as ignorant as you, kinda shocking to find out you’re the idiot in the group isn’t it.😊

[@UTU49]

I've done a considerable amount of math tutoring - - high school and introductory calculus. I found it very annoying that some students were literally trying to figure out how to pass their class... without learning anything. That was clearly their goal. With those students, I was always thinking, "Wouldn't LEARNING the MATERIAL be a pretty sound strategy for passing your test?" Americans seem to exhibit this kind of thinking when asked knowledge questions.

[@lovemesomeslippers]

@@UTU49George Bush II passed No Child Left Behind bull crap bill that ties test scores to school funding. School administrators hate this and it really does force schools to “teach to the test” in order to fund their schools. *9

[@janiece8439]

I spent ten winters in the USA I was at first shocked at their lack of world knowledge until I realized they just don't have any interest in anywhere other then where they are

[@xxehabxx-6044]

I lived in the USA, and here’s my perspective on the topic: Are American citizens less intelligent than those in other countries? Broadly speaking, the answer is yes-they often appear less informed, but this is by design. There are many above-average, highly intelligent people in the U.S., but they tend to be the ones in control, shaping systems that keep the rest of the population uninformed. This allows them to maintain their influence and control over the national agenda and direction. The U.S. operates more like a corporate haven and a capitalist entity rather than a traditional country. By design, the system discourages citizens from gaining greater knowledge or becoming critically aware

[@penusliski]

Exactly. The whole system for the last couple of decades in the US in an abusive mistreatment of their population and it definitely won't end well for them and will also effect the rest of the World in the process

[@LiqdPT]

4:15 the fact that Tyler got it right by misnaming the Atlantic is impressive.

[@to_loww]

Even if you can't locate them, you might be able to guess, as the time zones are also named after the oceans.

[@LiqdPT]

@@to_loww Canadian? There's no Atlantic time in the US (it's 1 hour ahead of eastern, which is the east coast of the US), so I'd be surprised in 95% of Americans know there's an Atlantic time zone.

[@to_loww]

@@LiqdPT Pacific/Mountain/Central/Eastern should ring a bell.

[@LiqdPT]

@@to_loww you said "time zones" and "oceans". That said, in my experience eastern timezone dwellers (in both countries) tend to forget other timezones exist fairly frequently. It wouldnt be completely out of the realm of possibility that they only refer to it as west coast or Los Angeles time. Side note, Los Angeles is actually an official name of the time zone in some schemes.

[@BethSc_VV]

I'm sorry Tyler but my 4 year old Grand daughter knows where Emus come from, along with Kangaroos and Koalas. We live in Scotland and she's learnt animals in nursery school. American children are let down by their education, it seems like they are only taught about the United States of America with a hefty dose of xenophobia. The rest of the world teaches their children about the planet they live on and ALL it's countries. The detail just varies based on age.

[@jameslewis2635]

The with lady who buzzed in 'because she wanted to' along with the impression I got that the Americans seemed to generally buzz in faster suggests that they are faster on the draw but slower on the uptake meaning that they tend take action before thinking.

[@anny1_232]

Hence the friendly fire instances when they fire on their own allies.

[@lizzieapples3339]

In World War II, Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union formed an Alliance that was the key to victory. It was also actually the Soviet Union that liberated Auschwitz among other camps. January 27, 1945. On this date, the Soviet army liberated approximately 7000 prisoners in Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Monowitz.

[@grandmaster8316]

The Pacific ocean covers almost half the globe. How is this such mystery! You border it Tyler!!

[@elfishmoss1457]

The funny thing is he said the ocean between the US and Europe and then the Pacific, I mean the ocean between Europe and the US is ofc the Atlantic, but the biggest is the Pacific, which is between the US and Asia

[@Aquarium-Downunder]

Tyler got the name right, but the wrong side.

[@tonys1636]

@@elfishmoss1457 The question was "Which is the largest body of water", as all the oceans are linked and are one body of water the answer is the world. The Continents are just very large islands.

[@elfishmoss1457]

@@tonys1636 I know, but that's not really what is meant by the question, whilst technically correct, that isn't how the question would be interpreted by most people so it isn't considered correct to name any ocean

[@tonys1636]

@@elfishmoss1457 Having spent a few years as a newspaper reporter in the late 60's one quickly learnt to ask questions that only had one possible answer, politicians still managed to avoid giving it. The answer beat around the bush so much that I often had to stop them to sharpen the pencil or grab a fresh one.

[@chris556]

I'm just a normal Aussie. Left school at 15 and I got all of the questions right. Maybe because I'm in my 60s. Shocked at how dumb most of the contestants were😂. By the way Tyler the Pacific is between US and Aus not Europe

[@grandmaster8316]

I like that Tyler said Americans don't know who Angela Merkel is and then they all knew 😂 Tyler doesn't know where the Pacific ocean is either so y'know...

[@ebbhead20]

If he hasn't seen it.. It doesnt exist.. 😎

[@kathryndunn9142]

Brexit is a play on words British and exit

[@marisaevancoe9837]

I'm sure he's seen the fecking Atlantic Ocean. He misspoke. I'm sure you've never misspke. A lot of fecking bullies on here hiding behind their computers.

[@indranidasgupta8982]

It’s an absolute lack of curiosity paired with how easy it is to graduate high school here. The system makes it absolutely possible to take the easiest courses and graduate. You don’t even have to graduate. You can leave school before you do. The thing is, many countries have people who don’t know stuff, but the fact that we have the infrastructure for people to GET EDUCATED makes it just… sad.

[@adegartland]

Does it count when you got it right when you got it wrong? The Atlantic is between Europe and America, not the Pacific.

[@maumau1968]

...and Tyler was so proud in his deduction. 😂

[@UTU49]

We just witnessed two wrongs making a right.

[@MrSchradason]

11:30 the rest of the world learns about world history in public school and USA just learns US history because it’s very full of itself (sorry not sorry)

[@andybaker2456]

"Ee-moo" is what a Geordie says when asked, "What sound does a cow make?".

[@Aquarium-Downunder]

E-moo is a cow on the internet. A Geordie adds cream to cows ........ I will say no more about that.

[@ShizuruNakatsu]

Americans just do a lot more yod dropping, which means they remove the Y (j) sound in a lot of words where British English has it. Especially on a consonant preceding the letter U. That's why we have differences in words like "tube" (toob versus choob). I still feel weird hearing Americans pronounce "emu" as "e-moo" rather than "e-myoo", but I get it.

[@thepickledpixie9052]

​@@ShizuruNakatsu I'm actually mind blown that folk don't know where emus are from. Also, I follow a couple of US homesteads/family farms and they keep "eem-yoos".

[@davidv.8655]

LOL

[@lauramartin7675]

Eem-you is the correct pronunciation. Aa an Australian it makes me cringe to hear Americans say it wrong.

[@jamesblack9746]

I'm 58 years old, I got every question right, the only I kind of struggled with was the Emu question and I was torn between New Zealand and Australia and I picked Australia. When I went to school, we were taught world history and the news actually practiced journalism and we saw and read on what was going on around the world, nobody on the news espoused their opinions about what was going on, they only reported on what was going on, back then the news wasn't meant to be sensationalized entertainment.

[@Whiteshirtloosetie]

To be fair to Americans as someone who is not. Just because someone can press a button quickly proves absolutely nothing. It would make more sense if in each case a method was used if both people could answer.

[@ShizuruNakatsu]

And it's also stupid to give points to someone who answers second on a 50/50 question like yes or no, true or false, etc.

[@robcrossgrove7927]

Yes, they should write the answers down then hold them up.

[@continental_drift]

@@ShizuruNakatsu Yes that 50/50 make the entire exercise multiple choice.

[@maiacedrola8912]

So, as a French person, the only reason I know that Emus are native to Australia is because I was researching about the Emu War. In 1932, Australians annouced war with the emus because they were destroying farmers crops. So, they decided to go to war with them, machine guns and all. The emus were very good at tactics, splitting into two groups to avoid gunfire and made military style troups with a leader for each one. And I kid you not, the Australians lost, twice

[@PhilipShand]

Yep....true ! Or 2 true.....😡

[@sharcon3891]

The problem is that Americans are narcissists. They are rightly represented by Donald Trump.

[@helenwood8482]

She said Angela wrong. Germans say it with a hard G. It's frightening that you don't know world leaders.

[@mw-wl2hm]

Especially since I believe Germany is the only country whose head is called chancellor.

[@ebbhead20]

That is fine by me... Its the who's she part that is troublesome. But he also talks on behalf on the whole country and i feel he's proven many times that's not a good idea.. 😎

[@tobiaskluke7094]

Given the fact that Angela Merkel was supposed to be political the most powerful woman in the world for 16 years, you should know, Tyler.

[@bats-are-just-Puppy-with-wings]

She's no longer a world leader thow

[@morganmeadowes6861]

They were speaking English, it makes sense to pronounce her name in English. I don’t think anyone in Germany would mind.

[@JamesYoung-uk2ng]

I'm a brit and it is not that Americans are dumb or stupid, its the people was specify what goes into your educational curriculum. And, I think that the government are to focused on the almighty dollar through productivity with in big business's like big pharma, Britain is following suit in the attitude of our government in our educational system, also, they are dumbing down educational standards by allowing the use of calculators in the classroom and foregoing the ability of mental arithmetic. last thing the underpinning of our education is the basic education we receive in our formative years and being able to learn from our parents.

[@Burglar-King]

One American was way smarter than the others and won all the points. If he hadn’t been in it I’m afraid the US would have crashed and burned lol. Loved this.

[@djdissi]

Exactly, he got every answer right. If he wasn't there, the US would've tanked miserably. Not ONE of these questions were hard or obscure in any way though 🇨🇦

[@Deano-Dron81]

It was a pointless game anyway, many of the times it was, the world guessing wrong on a 50/50 and the US getting it right by default…it happened a couple times too with the world getting the 50/50 right by default…but it’s obviously down to the quick buzzer… Would of been fair if you asked them individually and they write the answer down. My guess it would of been a slight more wider split but the same result anyways.

[@p.millard557]

The questions were EXTREMELY easy.

[@ivylasangrienta6093]

We know because they teach us about the rest of the world in school, not just our own country.

[@Aquarium-Downunder]

Then why do you call the bird a E-moo when it's called a Em-u

[@brigidsingleton1596]

​@@Aquarium-Downunder If you want to really be specific / pedantic... It's '_an_ emu' (or even the _incorrect_ "_an_ e-moo") 🖖

[@Aquarium-Downunder]

@@brigidsingleton1596 Try to be smart. but you can use both within the right context.

[@kathryndunn9142]

​@@brigidsingleton1596 I think he was just being funny as joking

[@brigidsingleton1596]

@@Aquarium-Downunder A emu is incorrect. An emu is correct. You're the one who was _rightly_ correcting the pronunciation of "emoo" I assumed (wrongly, apparently) therefore you meant to also be correct in using English the right way too. As for knowing or not knowing Australian or New Zealand English... All I know of either is what I hear on various videos from those countries, or about those countries. I've never been there...no can go to either country, I due to poor health and general mobility issues. My apologies therefore for not having 'ingested' sufficient information which would provide me with a superfluous knowledge of either countries, their people, culture etc. As for my own English...it is sufficient to my needs, thank-you.

[@brittking3990]

In school we (Americans) are taught American history and world history. For whatever reason no one pays attention in either class…and it’s downright an embarrassment! I thought everybody knew who Angela Merkel was….

[@-R.Gray-]

I'm pretty sure I would have known that the Pacific Ocean was not in between the U.S. and Europe back in 6th grade.

[@GrumpyDragon_aka_LjL]

@@Aquarium-DownunderRussia is not in Europe.

[@ghz24]

​@@GrumpyDragon_aka_LjLThe host said he thought the largest body of water was between America and Europe and then misidentified it as the Pacific when it's the Atlantic.

[@RandomBeagle]

​@@GrumpyDragon_aka_LjLyeah, a part is and a bigger part is not.

[@mohammadsaeed8433]

Hi from uk, this is why america has world championships in sports no one else plays!

[@truxton1000]

So many people refer to "school" when they don't know things like history and geography, but for most people (at least people that know a lot) school was just the starter and barely that. For me personally I can most definately say that 99% of all my knowledge has been learned AFTER I finished school. As for many people life is just a constant learning process.

[@sachaclulow9288]

So true

[@damonx6109]

To be fair... Tyler has been "learning" about the UK for two years now and still knows nothing...

[@nmellor774]

Knows nothing and is surprised by everything.

[@dwh58]

Watching world news, country news, local news with a curiosity to learn more.

[@djdissi]

Exactly 🇨🇦

[@francesyancey8126]

As a Canadian, a member of the Commonwealth and we studied other Commonwealth nations. We studied the people, economy, product, religion ect.

[@alchristie5112]

That’s embarrassing and sad for anyone who did not know that Russia was part of the allied forces during WW2

[@kadu3502]

Especially since as much as 26,6 million russians lost their lives as a result of ww2 (including zivilians)

[@mariannepedersenhagen6760]

But they are not that now...

[@vampfashions]

But we all had to "forget" that so the Russia is bad narrative keeping arms sales flourishing continues. We even invite Nazis into CDN parliament for celebration because "they fought Russia" who, yes, were our Allies during the 2nd world war.

[@ebbhead20]

Well that could have turned out differently. We have Adolf to thank for that. He didn't keep his promise to Russia, so they knew he was not the one to side with..

[@kadu3502]

@@ebbhead20 Great point👍

[@Redbeardian]

I'm impressed with how fast the USA people hit the button at first. They didn't care if they knew the answer but had to hit that button first. Meanwhile the "World" people would think about the question first but then learned what the USA was doing and also started racing to hit the button. I'm surprised it's the American's that said Israel vs Palestine as USA used it's veto power in the UN to block Palestine from becoming an independent country, which the rest of the world wanted, other than Israel of course. They should say Israel vs Egypt fought over the Gaza strip, technically.

[@goldeneagle256]

thats an impressive lack of knowledge about this topic. "I'm surprised it's the American's that said Israel vs Palestine as USA used it's veto power in the UN to block Palestine from becoming an independent country" neither UN or US have the power to block someone from becoming a state or country you muppet. there was a plan for a 2 state solution, and israel accepted the plan, and took the needed steps to become an independent state, while the so-called Palestinians refused the plan and went to war against israel instead, trying to wipe them of the map. thats why there is no palestinian state. well, that and the fact they have refused any offer to their own state ever since. and the current war arent technically between israel and hamas, but between israel and Iran thats the pupit master pulling their strings on all their proxy terror groups. but you right, there have never existed neither a palestinian state or a Palestinian people. they are simply Arabs with Egyptian and Jordan Passports

[@ethancantwell8549]

It's impressive how he tries to speak on the behalf of 330 million people and then when is disproved he calls them wrong instead of admitting he's wrong.

[@livb6945]

There's a difference between intelligence/being smart and knowledge/knowing stuff.

[@ShizuruNakatsu]

I'm from Ireland, and knew every answer (including that India now has a larger population than China). I actually feel like all of these things are common knowledge, and I'd be surprised if anybody I know would get more than two of these wrong. I'd _maybe_ forgive someone for thinking emus are from New Zealand, as New Zealand has a lot of native bird species. Also, I think it should be obvious that Russia and the US were allies during World War II. Both were fighting against the Axis powers. By definition, and by name, they were Allies.

[@Sprayber]

Did you pat yourself on the back and have a cookie? Nobody here really cares and that includes the people who gave your daily affirmation in the form of a like.

[@UTU49]

I like hearing other people's thoughts from around the world about various things.

[@nono86753]

@@Sprayber Awww you didn’t know the answers either 😂

[@Thingybob]

The Yen is a worldly question? Are you kidding me? Tyler, a wordly question is to ask a westener something like... name 2 rivers in Taiwan

[@ScurvyRascal]

Exactly! This test was really patronising 😂

[@ChasingFeelz]

My mouth dropped on a lot of these questions due to the lack of common knowledge... but I've had to pause the video, because how the hell do people not know that they speak Portuguese in Brazil???? My brain is turning to mush from the sheer lack of interest in the earth that you live on... It boggles my mind that the majority of Americans are so uninterested in learning about Earth... YOU LIVE HERE! How can people go throughout their whole existence without knowing anything geographically about the planet in which they reside! ... somebody send some globes to the US asap!

[@Aquarium-Downunder]

I can't remember doing any of that in school, I'm 62 years old and I got all 40 right. But I don't walk arount with my head up my arse

[@mw-wl2hm]

It wouldn't help sadly. They live in a bubble.. no one else exists and no matter how many facts to the contrary, no other place is as good so why bother to learn about anywhere else? Even if you want to excuse not knowing about the far reaches of that globe it's sadder (to us Canadians) that they haven't a clue about the country they share the longest border in the world with.. (Canada is often forgotten but it stings even more when our neighbours have no interest to learn about is - of course that doesn't stop them wearing OUR flag pin when they travel outside of their bubble.)

[@ChasingFeelz]

@@Aquarium-Downunder I would say most peoples geographical knowledge comes from taking it upon themselves to learn, rather than learning it all from school... this is why it boggles my mind even more so, that the Americans are just so uninterested or simply just more interested in living in their own little American bubble. The probability of an individual even existing on earth is nearly zero, so why the complete lack of interest from the majority of Americans in learning about where places are and what is happening in other parts of the planet that they live on? It's quite bizarre to think that many of these Americans will live the entirety of their lives without having a clue about the other 98.133% of the planet... it's extremely odd.

[@ChasingFeelz]

@@mw-wl2hm Yes I completely agree, it is sad... however I find it more confusing than sad. I will probably never understand why the majority of people from the US are like this, my guess is that it is the way in which they have been taught to be, everything for them is just AMERICA AMERICA AMERICA... as I said in my below comment it is rather shocking that they are so uninterested in the other 98.133% of the planet, and as you rightly said, especially their neighbouring countries!

[@brigidsingleton1596]

I learned a lot of geography from school, but, since those school years were so long ago, a lot of the countries borders have changed. (If I want to know them these days, I must look into which countries have changed. I do know that Czechoslovakia* (I offer my apologies for any and all misspellings) is now divided into Czechs* & Slovaks...

[@annettemoore7264]

😂😂😂 I just asked someone what was the largest body of water and they said "it's a toss up between Pavarotti and Oprah 😂😂😂

[@i-klaus]

If this gets into the newspaper it will be there The World: "The world ranks first, America ranks last." America: "America ranks second, the world second to last." Greetings from the Black Forest.

[@aussieragdoll4840]

USSR was in alliance with Germany at the start of WWII. They switched to join the Allies once Germany launched an invasion of Soviet territory without warning.

[@Rozz696]

Edit: I know the video is old but I wanted to rectify the error because it’s important to learn the difference and understand the context. You have it half right. At the beginning of WWII Germany and the USSR had a NON-AGGRESSION PACT, which is very different. An ally will fight with you; with the non-aggression pact they are just agreeing to not attack each other.

[@peterwilliamson5953]

in the UK i was brought up to hoover any and all information up about anything and everything , im 60 and come across new things all the time still

[@Aquarium-Downunder]

The world is not lost, some young people like you are willing to learn still. Yes I called you a young person because you are a young person, As a 62 year old I will tell you that we DON'T drink Fosters in Australia.

[@peterwilliamson5953]

@@Aquarium-Downunder phew thank god for that i thought you were beyond reprieve , plus , new info cheers .

[@gibson617ajg]

What's the best-selling vacuum cleaner in the World?

[@peterwilliamson5953]

@@gibson617ajg that would be the Shark Detect Pro Cordless according to googles

[@gardengeek3041]

Despite recent events, Palestine hasn't been a country for about 80 years. Correct answer is probably Israel and Egypt from a war in the 1960's. ( I'm half American on my father's side. Like most of his generation raised before the TV era, he could have answered all these types of questions, as could his schoolteachers in the southern US.)

[@juliehydemew4575]

Palestine was never a country, it was a Roman province. Parts of modern-day Turkey and Iraq were in Palestine, which also stretched across modern-day Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan.

[@barbaradalziel9421]

As a Canadian we had to learn world maps, American history, American geography this was in grade 3. Also my friend moved from the states to Canada when we were in high school. She was put back to grade 8. We were in grade 10 at the time.

[@francesyancey8126]

Part of the problem is that they do not take subjects in sequentiality. Biology 10, 20, and 30; you build on knowledge. my grandchildren didn’t experience that and were behind when they returned to Canada. When my children were in school in Hawaii, they were in public school 6 months; there was no way I’d let them continue. They went to private school as well did Canadian social studies and French by mail.

[@jimmytraveller2970]

I was in grades 3 4 & 5 in Canada We moved to the States I started end of grade 5 there but it felt like I was in grade 3 . There was no World map on the wall only one of The USA political next to their beloved flag that was in every damned place in the school. I could not understand how Thick and backward that class was . Oh also I was reprimanded for spelling mistakes because I spelled Centre not center & harbour not harbor

[@sandyhickey8236]

Here in Canada, we learn more about the world, at least we did when I was growing up. These were pretty easy questions

[@sharonmartin4036]

Yes Tyler, most people from other countries do know this stuff. It is unfortunate that your schools in America do not teach you that there is a whole 'other' world out there beyond USA borders. They seem to think that as long as you can recite the oath of allegiance word for word, without prompting, you'll be okay for life. Also honey, if it wasn't for that one American dude, and the fact that some Americans were just faster on the buzzer, the totals would have been around 10 or 11 to USA and the rest of the points to the 'world', because they did know a lot of the answers but were slower to buzz in.

[@SteveTheVampire]

@@mw-wl2hm, just the "old world". They don`t have cars, they riding camels to go to school. They don`t have fridges, they keep their food in holes in the ground. And they even don`t have internet, because we invented it, so they are irrelevant. America first, no one second! Oh, we are not America? What do you mean? There are more Americas? You`re a liar!

[@susanpearson-creativefibro]

Well I’m from the UK and I knew Emus were native to Australia by the age of about 8, so that question was a doddle. History and Geography are both global subjects in pretty much all developed nations.

[@johnnyrosenberg9522]

You got the Pacific Ocean right and wrong at the same time: It is the right answer to the question but the ocean between America and Europe is the Atlantic Ocean.

[@vdovii]

I came here to say this

[@YosiFrancos]

Palestine is not a country. If it were, the war would've been very different. It's an idea, but not a country.

[@meaneyedcat2024]

It is not "trivia"; it is general knowledge - a very good thing to have when one occupies the planet Earth with so many billions of others.. Mrs Merkle was a leader of a country and not in the least bit like Mrs Clinton. What you need is a proper education.

[@lydiakaraiskou1421]

It is not a matter of intelligence. It's an educational and a cultural matter. I live in Greece. When I was at school we had history starting in third or fourth grade till the last year of high school (mandatory not elective). Started with ancient history all the way to the WWII. And not just local history but global as well. The last two years in elementary school are homework for geography class was to make the map of each area/country we were studying. As a child I remember every family would buy a newspaper everyday. Our TV was full of documentaries of all kinds: nature, history, science. Even in today's TV channels you can find at least six game shows based on general knowledge. In our media there are news from all over the world. We get breaking news even if it is for something on the other side of the globe if it's important. If you want to you can keep learning forever, without even using the web.

[@yvonneandersson]

You certainly don’t come off as the “average American”, seeing how you actually are humble and generous and can admit when you don’t know stuff 🤣 and also don’t freak out waving the flag ‘Murica style completely if someone says “Americans are dumb”

[@IanDarley]

The body of water between the US and Europe is not the Pacific -1 point 👍

[@SotonCueMan]

I guess he proved that 2 wrongs sometimes do make a right! LOL!

[@Shan_Dalamani]

There were news reports when Trump went to one of the G-8 international conferences and journalists covered how he got along with other foreign leaders, including Merkel and Canada's Justin Trudeau. So that's when Angela Merkel was on the American news. Guess most of you slept through it?

[@helenwood8482]

Of course we know this stuff. We have schools that are used for more than to be shooting ranges for incels.

[@hijiri0794]

12:29 This conflict has been going on for decades with mutual wars and temporary ceasefires.

[@JulianaACdS]

We Brazilians get very annoyed sometimes when we're mistaken for our neighbors and thought of as a spanish speaking county. It happens a lot, and it's a pet peeve. The person who wrote that question must know how often it happens!

[@djdissi]

I was shocked when Tyler or anyone else wouldn't know that 🇨🇦

[@ghz24]

I only remembered because it seems so anachronistic for it to be Portuguese. We tend to forget how powerful Portugal was in the age of exploration.

[@BlackWater_49]

2:09 He's actually right. India is now the most populated country in the world closing following by PR China in second place...

[@Nigel-wu5lj]

This Yank bird was speaking to a Spanish woman and the yank went ,' where do you live' ? The Spanish woman goes ,,Valencia i sometimes go to the beach' yank goes what do you mean you go to the beach '. The yank believed that only the US had beaches. Seriously.

[@mw-wl2hm]

Not shocking since they think even if they live less than 20 kms. from a Canadian border as soon as they cross the temperature will surely drop to -40 even if it's the middle of July where they are.

[@UTU49]

​@@mw-wl2hm The US-Canada border isn't really a border per se. It's more of a giant wall of snow.

[@mw-wl2hm]

There are beaches and surfing? Surely not in that frozen tundra right next to us!

[@Nigel-wu5lj]

@@mw-wl2hm You find the Tundra in USSR, Norway, Sweden & Finland. Largely. I have personally visited all of these countries. If you think the Tundra is in Spain. Read up. Div !

[@mw-wl2hm]

@@Nigel-wu5lj Obviously my sarcasm in relaying what Americans think when crossing into Canada (with comparisons to them not knowing there are beaches is Valencia same as not knowing there are beaches in Canada) was completely lost on you - but thanks for the tip..

[@thehapagirl92]

A guy I met from Bumble who is from Scotland but now lives here in SoCal asked me, a native Californian, if I was originally from another country because he was shocked at how eloquently I speak lol. I just don’t use slang and I spell out words. The bar is low as shit

[@IanDarley]

For the yes / no questions, it was unfair to allow the other party to answer when the first answer was incorrect, they should have moved on to the next question.

[@richardfeldkamp1707]

This video is about 2 years old. I could have answered most of these questions by the time I was in grade 8 (1967). Good Ontario public school education. A few of the questions occurred after that time, but I knew all of the answers when I first saw the video. All good common knowledge that children should know.

[@Sparx632]

First guy should be cut some slack, for a long time India was number 2 and the only country besides China to have over 1 billion people. Pretty sure India actually overtook China recently though so he’s ultimately correct.

[@frogandspanner]

India overtook China in the last 12 months.

[@EinSofQuester]

There is no country called Palestine. The two countries who fought over Gaza in 1967 are Israel and Egypt.

[@gesjht5499]

Can't believe none of the contestants noticed this. Even though it's not super well known, they should've at least known that Palestine isn't a country.

[@martynwhite5711]

this is old Angela Merkel has been out of power for a couple years now Olaf Shulz is Chancellor

[@Aquarium-Downunder]

She is hanging from the roof in the backroom keeping her fangs sharp.

[@morganmeadowes6861]

At the time of the video it was still Merkel, I think but she was chancellor for such a long time and relatively recently, if you ever knew of her you probably still do. And I think her pronounciation was just the English was of saying her name, so not necessarily wrong. (Btw, it’s Scholz now.)

[@MaXxProsTe]

2:25 Actually NOW (according to 2024 counts) it IS India...

[@PunkersTV]

What is the term used for the UK's exit from the EU? "The Boston Tea Party 😂😂😂

[@keelbyman]

😂

[@LindaMacken-lc9kk]

I'm a Canadian. I used to play an online scrabble game with a retired school teacher from Montana. We could 'chat' with each other. She didn't know Canadians had Thanksgiving! She wished me a happy 4th of July. ?? She didn't know we celebrated Canada day on July 1st. Also thought it was cold here all the time when in actual fact parts of Canada are farther south than some of the U.S. states. We are taught just as much of the U.S. and the rest of the world as our own country.

[@ianwalker5842]

You're pleased you got Pacific right...but were talking about "the ocean between the USA and Europe" which is actually the Atlantic.

[@cazziefores2183]

I'm shocked that you thought the Pacific ocean is between America and Europe 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😱😘🇬🇧

[@djdissi]

Yeah that WAS shocking 😅🇨🇦

[@lauram4168]

Pacific Ocean is not in beetwen Europe and America😂, you got that wrong as well, He says American would know more about ww ally URSS, but than he says after that Americans could get confused because Russia today's name , when they don't get it right 😂 omg

[@MichaelJohnsonAzgard]

The Brit with the LA baseball cap is representative of what the UK is becoming; they live a US culture and know more about you lot than where they live.

[@UTU49]

Canadian, reporting in. I knew all these questions. I'm not saying that to brag, but just to provide a data point for the case against the United States. If there had been 10 more questions, I probably would have missed one or two. To Tyler, if you knew just a handful of things about Germany, the Chancellor might be one of them... Don't you think? Similarly, if you knew just a couple of things about Brazil, the language might be one of them.

[@Mamaki1987]

Angela Mekel was Chancellor for 16 years. Now it is Olaf Scholz. This video has to be an older video

[@iamsherlocked875]

7 yrs ago

[@Mamaki1987]

@@iamsherlocked875 Ah, explains it.

[@micmac274]

Gaza Strip question is stupid. Jordan and Egypt have also attacked that region - Note everyone is confused at it.

[@annaharrow6161]

Egypt and isreal

[@simonpowell1762]

As a UK native I’ve totally got my local geography down. Europe, most parts of western society, Australia, Japan, some parts of Africa and Asia. That’s cool. Why Americans don’t know their closest continents, S America, N America, your close oceans for example, it’s unforgivable 🤣 Your ignorance holds no barrs 💪🏼😩🤣👍🏼

[@stanislavkolacny609]

Wasn't Boston Tea Party the start of American War of Independance (maybe not the correct name of the war)... that it was essentially the declaration of war to the Great Britain?

[@weetjijwel050]

Your answer about the Oceans was right, but you still got it wrong. The Pacific ocean is NOT the ocean between Amerika end Europe 😁

[@adrianwaygood7156]

To be fair... I think he was expressing his thought process BEFORE selecting the Pacific.

[@weetjijwel050]

@@adrianwaygood7156 He is thinking about the ocean between USA and Europe, saying its huge. He thought it was named the Pacific. He never mentioned the ocean between USA and Azia. So im gonna have to disagree here 👍

[@kathypearson9080]

I was on a hydroponics tour in Singapore with several professors in the group. Two of them told how they applied for jobs teaching in the US. During their separate interviews in different years at different educational institutions they were both told by their interviewers that "they don't like to fail their students." Both took it to mean that they should pass students who fail because it makes their education system look better.

[@damonx6109]

Tyler: "We in America sure have our fair share of intellectually challenged individuals..." Oh, we know Tyler. We watch your videos after all...

[@EterPuralis]

Once you learn Australia lost a war to the Emus, y' kinda don't forget it 😂 Also, you keep using the word "smart" when what you really mean is knowledgeable. Not the same thing 😅

[@Temeraire101]

“What’s the largest body of water?” “The Specific Ocean”

[@MrGBH]

Sounds like the start of an Abbott and Costello sketch

[@knowledgeisgood9645]

There is just one ocean. We just put names on different parts of it.

[@josephturner7569]

​@knowledgei Tom Lewis song.

[@ashhabimran239]

I remember hearing this joke in The Amazing World of Gumball

[@Dandersenification]

15:52 "First of all.......Chancellor is the funny guy in Friends." #nakedgunfacepalm No, that was Chandler and No again, the funny guy was Joey!