🇬🇧BRIT Reacts To MAPS THAT WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU SEE THE WORLD!

[@TheOnlyPOOCH]

"Greenland looks small but is actually Big" 10:37 he actually meant the opposite, it looks big but is actually small.

[@benjamindouglas862]

It's big enough that the US should concur and colonize it

[@zenonorth1193]

Yes. This is really quite appalling. The complete lack of understanding shown here regarding geography and cartography makes the producers of this and any other videos they've made untrustworthy.

[@kkandola9072]

The reason we don’t use the metric system is that it would cost a lot of money to convert all of our systems to operate on a metric system . The government doesn’t find it necessary.

[@kurtkatzemcqueennovaaetate6873]

That's right. They find it more necessary to give billions to Ukraine.

[@hrussell9677]

@@kurtkatzemcqueennovaaetate6873 I guess you are a tRump/Putin boy

[@kazeryu17]

@@kurtkatzemcqueennovaaetate6873 Enter random off topic comment.

[@kurtkatzemcqueennovaaetate6873]

@@kazeryu17 My comment talked about money and government. I'm not sure how that diverts from K Kandola's comment that talks about money and government... but ok.

[@geofftottenperthcoys9944]

@@kurtkatzemcqueennovaaetate6873 So basiclly, "fuck em all"?

[@jeremyhelquist]

Yet the UK doesn’t use metric in its entirety either. 😋

[@GordotheGamer]

Or Canada

[@kikibigbangfan3540]

Firstly, don't blame the US for not using the metric system. Blame the UK for giving the US the imperial measurements and then switching back to blend in with the rest of Europe. Secondly we do use a combo of both the metric and imperial like liters/litres, grams, ounces and kilos. Just like the UK using kilometers and miles per hour for speed. Combos. 👍🙂

[@greytooth898]

We don’t really use the metric system here in the US though, outside of some professional and academic contexts. When was the last time you bought meat in grams at a US supermarket?

[@kikibigbangfan3540]

@@greytooth898 um...you must not pay close attention to a lot of products cause the measurements are all around in the US. Next time you go to the grocery store shopping or go look in your cabinets, there are measurements in ounces and grams..like a cookie box. Or look at a can of soda or bottle of wine. Trust me they're there, most people just don't really notice. You're welcome!

[@greytooth898]

@@kikibigbangfan3540 yes, they're there, but no one uses the gram measurements in the US. Our recipes, unless you go out of your way to find foreign ones, all use the US customary units. The metric measurements are there for immigrants/ exporting the product.That's why the metric measurements are always random integers (ex. 123g), instead of nice multiples of ten (ex. 100g). The product is made primarily for the US market, so the quantity reflects that. You're grossly overstating how often the average American uses the metric system by confounding the *presence* of metric measurements with their *use*. You're welcome!

[@kikibigbangfan3540]

@@greytooth898 not true I use them on a regular basis. And I'm sure other people use them as well....litres...centimeters, milliliters and grams. I'm not grossly overstating anything...kinda like how you're speaking for everyone in this country by saying " we don't use these measurements" on a daily. Speak for yourself. And the products I was speaking about and looking at right next to me, are not for exports they are from localized companies that dont ship overseas. As a whole do we go out of our way to use the metric system, no...but we still use here and there. Bless!✌️

[@greytooth898]

@@kikibigbangfan3540 LOL no, other people don't use them on a regular basis, you're an outlier. Please stop replying. You're becoming annoying and I'm tired of notifications.

[@Timmycoo]

In STEM, we use Metric as it is international. We learned that the hard way in a space mission that failed. But I find a lot of countries around the world still use some imperial measurements as well, such as the height of a person "5 foot 2" or distance in miles etc. I grew up on the Metric system and been living in the US since 2000 but I still sometimes have to convert things in my head, most commonly weight and temperature.

[@misterkite]

Why does the UK still use miles per hour? Or stones to measure weight?

[@theguywhoasked5591]

10:34 I can’t believe that the people that made this video actually included that. Greenland is much much MUCH smaller than Africa. 🤦‍♂️

[@ESUSAMEX]

No matter how many nations want to blame the US for the world's problems, the US is still voted the #1 destination for immigrants. A few years ago, the UN conducted a survey that asked how many people would move to the US if given the change? 85% of the world's population responded yes to that question. Moreover, Finland and Sweden never wanted to join NATO because they didn't want the US to dictate their military plans. Now that Russia has shown a willingness to march across neighboring borders, these two nations are pushing to join forthwith.

[@hardtackbeans9790]

10:42 (sigh) Be Amazed should really proof read. This isn't the only example so far either. Just the most glaring. Due to errors in most projected maps used Greenland shows up about 8 times larger than it really is. It should be considerably smaller than Africa. About a 10th the land mass of Africa.

[@JPMadden]

30.37 million square kilometers for Africa versus 2.17 million for Greenland. The error is especially ridiculous since they had just said Africa is not stretched as much by a flat map.

[@PwnageFury]

We were well on our way to using the Metric system in the 1970s under President Carter. Reagan came in and undid lots of the progress Carter started like the conversation to Metric and promoting solar. The metric system is used in engineering, science, and medicine.

[@PwnageFury]

Looking deeper, President Ford (just before Carter) signed a law making metric the preferred measurement system in 1975.

[@xviper2k]

10:28 Well he screwed that up entirely. Greenland doesn't "seem small" on a map, it looks much larger than it actually is. The person who made this video doesn't seem to understand how map distortion works, only that it exists.

[@ZootSuitJZ]

The short version... We don't use the metric system because it's inferior for everyday use. The metric system is okay for simplicity in science and engineering, but it's not relatable to human frames of reference. I've asked Americans and Europeans alike how big is a meter, and both have shown or stated everything from 10 CM to 1 KM. Most people (regardless of country) can't relate metric measurements to human life. With SAE, it's relatable. Almost everyone has at least one foot (some slight variations). So if you ask someone how big is a foot, they can give you a fairly decent representation of it.

[@NurseEmilie]

Inches, feet and yards make sense too and we understand them.

[@jakemon4550]

We are taught both metric and imperial in school. There are some imperial measurements that are better than metric, for example most metric nations still use degrees to measure angles.

[@zenonorth1193]

EVERYBODY uses degrees to measure angles. Angles aren't an imperial measurement. They go back to effin' Babylon ferchrissake!

[@laurataylor8717]

A lot of interesting things you don't usually think about there. I saw a video once about why the US uses inches instead of meters and why we probably will never change. It may have been by Weird History.

[@pjschmid2251]

Some people are saying that we don’t switch to the metric system because of cost and there is some element of that but I think it’s just as much due to peoples general resistance to change. Overall the general populace does not feel aneed to change to the metric system they’re fine with things as they are. I grew up in the 70s and we were told "we’re changing to the metric system you need to learn the metric system"; they taught us all about the metric system and then nothing happened. At this point I’m OK with the length measurements and volume measurements, weight sort of in metric but I’ll never get used to Celsius. For regular day-to-day air temperatures Fahrenheit just makes more sense to me it runs from zero is very cold 100 is very hot and you’ve got a lot of temperatures in between for fine grain variation. It’s not so hard to remember 32 is freezing and 212 is boiling. And really since I’m not doing a whole lot of science knowing the temperature at which water boils isn’t really that important to me in my day-to-day life. People that do work in the sciences or much of industry do you use the metric system it’s just regular people in their day-to-day lives don’t. I personally like the human scale of US customary measures; a foot is about the same size as my foot, an inch is about the width of my thumb, a yard is from my sternum to the tips of my fingers (I’m 6 feet tall). Knowing how many feet or yards is in a mile it’s not really relevant to anything since you use miles for long distances that you would typically drive or walk and increments of a mile aren’t measured in feet or yards they’re measured in fractions. Also US measurements are very handy for a lot of things especially for craftsman that like to divide things in half or quarters or thirds since they have multiple factors. Numbers like 12 and 16 can be divided in half and in half again or easily not so much for 10 which has one factor, that being 2. As soon as you start dividing metric measurements by eights or thirds God help you everything goes to hack in a handbasket.

[@AdamNisbett]

I think it’s a combo of resistance to change as well as the general culture of the USA being that of independent stubbornness and non-conformity. So to some extent I think there’s a sort of pride in being the only country that hasn’t fallen in line under the metric system. That said, I’m one American that would love to switch to metric despite the difficulty of changeover.

[@pjschmid2251]

@@AdamNisbett go and look up videos on KZbin about some reasons that the US measurement system really works. This is particularly true of craftsman in the way they use measurements in US customary measures. The fact that 12 inches can be divided in half in quarters and thirds etc.. Also the fact that the smaller pieces of measurement aren’t things like millimeters inches aren’t divided into tens parts, they’re ½ inch, ¼ inch, ⅛ inch etc. craftsman like carpenters find it incredibly useful and can find meters, centimeters and millimeters frustrating in that sense. The same thing for pints and pounds being 16 ounces; the number of divisors 16 has makes breaking down recipes for instance very easy. When these measurement systems were devised they chose the numbers 12 and 16 very purposefully to provide more divisors to make these types of conversions easier. 10 is a pain in the ass in that sense you can divide it in half and then you’re pretty much done. And I still think Fahrenheit beats Celsius for air temperature. I mean as it is Celsius is used in science in the US anyway but I still want my weather report in Fahrenheit. The premise that everything being decimal movements isn’t without flaws. The initial premise that everything is tied together and volume is tied to length etc. sounds really cool but in day-to-day life when have I ever cared if I could measure a pint in inches? Never. And I doubt anyone’s ever worried about whether or not they could measure their liter in centimeters; I mean nobody does that in their every day life.

[@AdamNisbett]

@@pjschmid2251 I’m familiar with the pros and cons of each. Baking is about the only application where I have hesitation about preferring metric anyway. I do agree that in an ideal world our number system wouldn’t be centered around base 10. If there were ever an apocalypse where society had to restart I would vote for starting fresh with a metric like system but around base 12 rather than base 10 as then it would be the best of both worlds. I definitely prefer Celsius to Fahrenheit though. I feel like the divisions of 10 degree increments have more meaning for me: below -20C is “don’t go outside” -20 to -10C is bitter cold -10 to 0C is freezing 0 to 10C is cold 10 to 20C is cool 20 to 30C is warm 30 to 40C is hot 40 to 50C is walking into an oven hot and above 50 is “I’m gonna die.”

[@jimgreen5788]

Kabir, just an FYI for learning purposes, he mispronounced Coober Pedy as PED=ee. It's actually PEA-dee (the Australian Outback city).

[@jacquesmassard9226]

As an American that was born out side of the USA. With a lot of Family outside till today i am not shocked at the last map. After the Iraq war i think that would be how people see it for years right now 2022 i bet Russia would be all over the place. In my experience in Latin American they blamed many internal issues and even genocides on the USA to almost wash themselves clean of blame. Like i had relatives blamed the USA for the Syrian civil war when Russia was the one that sent troops.

[@loveit7484]

I was stunned to realize how big Africa truly is. Interesting video.

[@jonadabtheunsightly]

In terms of switching over to metric, the differences between the US and the UK are quite minor. Both countries use metric units for some things and traditional units for others. England measures distances between cities in miles; Americans measure them in hours or minutes. Brits measure a person's weight in stone, Americans in pounds. There are other differences, but they're generally specific to what you're measuring. But the BIG difference, is that if you say to a Brit, "you should switch to metric", they say "We already did", even though this is manifestly not true. Whereas an American will openly admit that we don't want to. Honestly, the only SI units that the average American really should know and doesn't, are the kilogram and the newton. The rest we either know already (meter, centimeter, litre, second), or they aren't important enough for most folks to bother with (hectolitres, decagrams, kilopascals, joules, farads, etc). Well, there's also that nasty business about getting confused between the Calorie (aka, kilocalorie) and the calorie, but I don't think that's limited to Americans only. Also, the video screwed up badly with Greenland. (I think he was looking at a Mercator projection. That's useful for some purposes, but NOT for comparing sizes of distant places. Use a globe, or look up the surface areas on Wikipedia.) Greenland is in fact smaller than Algeria, let alone all of Africa.

[@kennethswartz8252]

I think another oddball is Myanmar driving on the right side of the road but vehicle steering wheel is also on the right, or it could be the left and left. Either way it's odd. I haven't researched this, I saw it on Top Gear. Basically you would exit the bus into traffic.

[@r0kus]

America *has* switched to metric, officially. All "English" measurements are defined in terms of metric units. Adoption of metric units by industry is optional, though. Business leaders have generally decided conversion is not worthwhile. I generally agree. Why bother? Note that some items are sold metrically. Bottled water is usually 500 ml or even 1 liter, large bottles of soda are 2 liters, etc. For some reason, canned soda remains 12 oz.

[@flighttastic9914]

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[@patphatkitten]

They started to go to metric system, but government ran out of the will and money to finish job. That's why we have 2 liter soda bottles. That was from when they started to change all of the manufacturing equipment to metric system, but did not finish.

[@Belleplainer]

The whole thing about metric being simpler in terms of scaling is true, but it's also irrelevant to the vast majority of people a vast majority of the time. People rarely have the need to figure how much of x-measure makes up y-measure. And it's generally a small number of those conversions that regularly come up, and so people are accustomed to just knowing them. What matters more is a person's sense of how much something actually is. Ask an American how long a foot is, and most of us will be able to show you by stretching out our hands with a fairly close approximation of the real thing. Ask that same American how long 30 centimeters is (which is the rough equivalent of a foot), and most likely he/she would just shrug. There are Americans who know metric measures and that a meter is roughly equivalent to a yard, and so would be able to do the conversion...eventually. But it's just natural for most Americans to think in US customary units, not metric. Learning a foreign system of weights and measures is like learning another language in that your mind has to become accustomed to thinking in that other system. The reason why the US hasn't made the switch is because we haven't prepared the public to make it. Most Americans would either greatly struggle or be completely lost for some time after a switch to metric. There needs to be a concerted effort by the government to prepare the public by mandating knowledge of the metric system and its acclimation to the public via mandating it be used in conjunction with US customary units. There are a few places where this has been accomplished. For example, most Americans could probably fairly easily pick a liter-sized bottle out of a lineup because of the one- and two-liter sized bottles that soda is sold in. But that's a rare thing.

[@yugioht42]

Cooper pedy is a opal hotspot so you dig out a house and bam you already paid for it in full by getting the opals out plus a nice fat bonus for your trouble. So it’s like you get a house plus profit. It’s just money and the school added bonuses for teachers every year for simply adding rooms to it. The town is a cash machine that doesn’t stop.

[@ajwhitworth8803]

America actually uses both the imperial and metric systems! We use the imperial system in the every-day normal-joe measurements while we use the metric system in more official capacities, like in scientific data.

[@Shadowcub69]

We tried the metric system and everyone was crying including the teachers, off the top of my head I think only doctors and tech and engineering and house building use it first. Everyone I talk to will use feet and yards describing things.

[@0101tuber]

The last map's formative question in the survey seems to have confused "most likely to disturb world peace" with the reality that we are far most likely to become involved in being "The World's Police" in which we get involved in areas that already are in conflict. This is a matter of great debate among American citizens/taxpayers.

[@ramsoncole4605]

We are used to the imperial system. The US tried switching over in the late 70's, but there was such an outcry, and industry is completely revolved around the imperial system, we just dropped the idea.

[@DaInfamous0ne]

Why we don't use the metric system? 2 reasons. Cost & we really don't care what others use. Some Americans never leave the country. Ever. (By the way we do use it. But its not the primary system. We use both)

[@bynumite76]

We're just damn stubborn! 🤠

[@JustForFunzies72]

FYI...Greenland is WAY smaller than it appears on flat maps. Africa is more than 14 times the size of Greenland.

[@jacquesmassard9226]

Metric system adoption could have happened a long time ago but the government didn't want to push it and the older population pushed against it. The cost would not have been high compared to the time and money saved. i guess in the future it will not be that different to how some England people still say stone or etc...

[@kennethswartz8252]

Also, in relation to the Russian language. Watch Bert Kreischer "The Machine" stand up bit. It is absolutely hilarious.

[@TDHSFV]

I think I heard somewhere that Thomas Jefferson or Benjamin Franklin insisted on the imperial system.

[@jeanmiddleton7327]

Imagine the cost of just switching over all the gas pumps in the US to metric. I think the cost of switching everything over to metric will prevent it from ever happening.

[@zenonorth1193]

Africa is not "30.37 million kilometers square". It is 30.37 million square kilometers. The difference is significant and important.

[@Honkey-Donkey]

Big eye roll for narrator's pronunciation of Coober Pedy. 🙄

[@brianh6]

"You could fit America." It's kind of ironic he didn't include Alaska since it's the biggest state by far (a little over 20% of the size of the contiguous US).

[@georgedykes5533]

Think about how much money it would take just to change every mileage sign on every highway in the US and that is one change.

[@jjw1072]

"Maps that will change blow your mind" English that will change blow your words.

[@gregvanmatre5068]

Damn Pirates in the 1800's made it where we do not have the Metric System here in the US.

[@disoriented1]

Mr Kabir..I get the metric system..it's not difficult. It is like our monetary system in the U.S...decimal. In primary school in the 70s we were taught Imperial and Metric, because it was assumed that we would be all Metric in ten years. I did not really learn either fully. But, I used Imperial in everyday life. At the grocery store, in sports, in work around the house. All our measuring instruments were both Imperial and Metric. But I can understand a kilometer is a thousand meters..fine. But I can't picture a meter..I CAN picture a foot.. it's like a foreign language if you never use meters. To this day, when I hear someone say it's two meters, I translate that to six feet. I understand what a 2 liter Coke is, but I also understand a 20oz Coke. Actually, for us common Merican idiots in the U.S., Imperial works fine. I just know when I hear Metric terms I need to convert them to something I understand

[@justanotherwhitegirla7093]

History Scope has a video Why is India Poor? That might be worth watching.

[@hollykinslow5193]

Have you looked at a "Flat Earth" map?? Not saying I'm a believer, but it is worth a conversation. We already know our system as in the "system" we use... .it's more confusing to try to change the thinking.

[@MlTCH]

You guys created the imperial system and gave it to us in the USA.

[@robertlewis1290]

I would guess that we are just used to our system of measurement and are reluctant to change it. What really makes me think, as far as continental makeup is concerned, why is Asia and Europe considered two continents when they are connected by the Ural Mountains? They should be considered the EurAsian continent in my opinion.

[@j0k3rday]

way to make it look easy lol

[@larsmiles7231]

Being a science major made me really dislike the imperial system and the fact that it is what America uses (outside of science).

[@sueosborne533]

It’s not necessary to switch to the metric system. It’s like why you all don’t drive on the right side of the road 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@kayden2119]

imagine having to switch everything in your country to a different measurement system. And its only confusing to you because obviously you did not grow up learning it.

[@bicknell67]

The size of Greenland is wrong it is not that big.

[@ThatChainmecha]

greenland is not the same size as africa, that guy has no idea how projections work

[@Nope991]

Yes the US needs to switch to metric idk what it is waiting for.

[@edwingonzalez3184]

You talking about centimeters and meters to us in the USA is like an 👽 language to us inches and feet and yards is very simple

[@tnc7399]

the last one is too inaccurate to be on this list. but at least it was fun to see the last one show how America would be seen as dangerous

[@controlZchannel]

He made a few bone headed mistakes. - The names for countries on maps aren't "wrong", it's called English. Every country does this. - The US was the first to use pixelated camouflage. - America isn't "lagging behind" with the measurements, as if we're too dumb to figure out how to count to 1,000. We choose not to. - If Russia's search engine can understand Russian, then so can Google. They use their own to control their internet, less access to outside information. - Dude merely parroted the distorted map notion without understanding it. Greenland is SMALLER in reality.

[@jena6587]

Easy to convert for you, not for us. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@Youdontunderstandmoney]

Disagree. You'd be surprised how many Americans can't understand the metric system no matter how many times you teach it to them. That's a bit like saying "English is easier than French because there are no genders and odd conjugations" but if you're a native French speaker, you'd disagree. The point is that all of this is relative. (Also it would be a logistical nightmare to replace and recalculate every single measurement, sign, textbook, label, weight, beaker, speedometer, valve, thermometer, etc.)

[@teddiberes1688]

"Why would the U.S. use feet & inches rather than metric? Metric is so simple." Well, the UK invented feet and inches so maybe ask why you changed (Timmy jumped off the bridge so I guess we all have to jump off the bridge?) Plus, if people require "simple metrics" because feet and inches is just too hard (owie, makes brain stuff hurt), for them to comprehend, well, that sounds like an other people problem. I don't question the obsession with tea. You do you. (All of that was said with humor, so don't take offense. I mean, you can choose to take offense, but resist the urge to "Will Smith" me, please.)

[@reneedreamz3375]

When you pause the video to talk about it, when the video disappears we are not able to see what you’re referring to. 😑

[@jjc4220]

You should do a poll to see if people have the same view today about the threat US poses. My guess is, it hasn't, despite what Russia is doing. That's because in an era of readily available information, most people are able to dig deeper.

[@kingdarius513]

The Greenland this is wrong

[@JPMadden]

1) During the Cold War, I remember people saying that the metric system was a communist plot, and not all of them were joking. The U.S. does use some metric, but Imperial units still dominate. For science we use the same SI (metric) units as everyone else. I do find it curious that Brits question why Americans don't use metric, when they still use some Imperial units, such as giving people's weights in "stone." 2) The original video makes a ridiculous error with Africa and Greenland. At 10:38, it shows them being of similar size. Because Africa straddles the Equator, it is stretched the least by a flat map. Greenland is stretched the most. Their areas tell the truth: 30.37 million square kilometers for Africa versus 2.17 million for Greenland. 3) As an American, I can understand the Commonwealth nations retaining economic, military, and cultural ties with the UK, but I don't understand why a sovereign country would want another's head of state as their own. That wouldn't be possible in the U.S., because our president is both head of the government and head of state, unlike in most countries. In Canada, for example, their PM is head of the government and the British monarch is the head of state. 4) The U.S. is both a protector of and a threat to world peace. We're complicated, I guess. We can argue who started which war, but no nation is involved in more of them.

[@hrussell9677]

I stopped watching this guy’s ridiculous video when he located Ghana in East Africa. This dude clearly doesn’t research his facts. Quite embarrassing.

[@AppalachiaRRlover]

Cause metric sucks🇺🇸

[@kennethswartz8252]

I think another oddball is Myanmar driving on the right side of the road but vehicle steering wheel is also on the right, or it could be the left and left. Either way it's odd. I haven't researched this, I saw it on Top Gear. Basically you would exit the bus into traffic.