How Dumb is the Average American Really? | American Reacts

[@giselerobert2070]

I am 92 years old and answered them all.I am a French Canadian.What kind of education are these people getting?This is very sad for the U.S.A.😢😢🇨🇦

[@briankane6547]

That's the problem - they aren't.

[@paulhenman9907]

It all depends on the people who got it right. He could have asked a million people and they are the ones that got it wrong,

[@iamyovi]

same, I answered all of them correctly, and I asked my daughter the same questions and she got it all correct she is 15 by the way.... something is not right in their education system maybe?

[@aaroncarson1770]

The more gizmos people use, the worse it gets.

[@aaroncarson1770]

​@@paulhenman9907Yes this looks a very curated selection.

[@marekkozub8957]

The worst thing is, that most of them think, they are smart and everybody else is stupid.

[@preeyakumari-i2q]

Doesn’t everybody think that !

[@fantabuloussnuffaluffagus]

@@preeyakumari-i2q Only those who are not very smart, people who actually are very smart tend to think that they are less intelligent than they are. Look up Dunning-Krueger.

[@robertdavidson8028]

@@preeyakumari-i2q NO - only over-confident people!

[@stpfs9281]

Dunning-Kruger effect!

[@yoyomen8913]

Like your government, they all think you average guys are stupid

[@johnguttink]

I saw a video of a Russian girl answering all trivia questions correctly. Her explanation: "I'm not an American".

[@thumtlnguyen3626]

The good the worst are US. Top 10 world universities, 5 US universities are among them.

[@carlossaraiva8213]

That russian girl is an exception. The average russian person are even worse than americans in regard to education, thanks to putin.

[@julians9070]

It is sad to listen to that answer, especially if you are an American.

[@marilynsummit1764]

They were mostly showing the kids who couldn't answer. Go to the channel. He shows you many kids who answered. There is another guy giving away a thousand dollars for correct answers at a college which this guy does most of his videos. Many of them won the money. The truth is schools don't teach children simple things like how to tell time on a clock and how to sign a document in cursive. They only teach them to print their names. The reason I know the continents, presidents, countries, math, even reading is because I taught myself. The school system had are failed the kids here. I watch these videos all the time and I yell at the tv the correct answers😂 He does tells them they are wrong but mostly not at that moment. You need to watch more videos. Not just one. Stop saying Americans like you're judging an entire country. Like everyone does the same thing. They don't.

[@JP_TaVeryMuch]

​@@marilynsummit1764 I agree, it's a cheap shot and is obviously not scientific. Clue's in his different clothes. There's a guy who does a more even-handed version at various universities in the USA. Atlanta is one, another is Harvard. Guess which one's students correctly answer the most questions. I'd like to see this particular guy actually put the effort in and go to other countries and ask similarly facile questions of similarly aged young adults and see how badly _they_ do. I'm pretty sure that they wouldn't do as cringingly badly and I think that Tyler's despair at the average American's lack of critical thinking would be borne out. But I also think that it would be a fair bet that they wouldn't fail so assertively as this lot has. Most of all, I'd want to shove the questioner's every "Yes" response so far down his smug throat that my fist came out the other end. Jus' sayin'.

[@rich8037]

"What state are we in now?" "A state of alarming ignorance."

[@AdalbertPtak]

Ignorance is voluntary stupidity. After all, information is available.

[@Binteh]

This is exactly what's wrong with America. Your basic education SUCKS. I don't blame the people, I absolutely blame your government. Your government knows that keeping the majority of people stupid means you can control them better and that benefits the people who have money for a good education. 99% of the problems America is currently facing: education, racism, raging poverty, drugs, violence, your perception of "freedom", healthcare, etc... can absolutely be cured by GOOD education in the long term.

[@osubirana]

The average American IS NOT RACIST!! I am a foreigner and lived AGES in the USA. NEVER, was I EVER discriminated! Racism is not a problem in America. THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA IS!!!

[@markb3786]

Education is mostly a local issue. The federal government has little involvement in the curriculum. The areas with the most Bible thumpers have the worst education and tend to value it less.

[@markedwards3647]

YOU are exactly what's wrong with a noisy minority of Americans. You uncritically treat clickbait as fact, and don't care what's true. While healthcare cost is out of control, most of the world is far more violent and racist than the US.

[@-TheOracle-]

The US has a party called the GOP that fights against funding public education. Get this, some republican red states do not require teachers working in private schools to have an education. That is right, no education at all and you too can become a teacher at a private school. It truly is a mental and a lack of intelligence issue with republicans. Trump loves the uneducated republicans!

[@gregpetridis3762]

I don't think the education is all that bad, but learning is a voluntary process and some just don't want to learn.

[@lbcmotors9316]

Mark Twain had Americans figured out! “ If you are ignorant, read, if you are bigoted, travel” Many in the US do neither.

[@Cantbuyathrilll]

@@lbcmotors9316 Wrong! MOST in the US do neither

[@Cantbuyathrilll]

@@lbcmotors9316 "We dont take kindly to yer kind 'round heah!" "Tuhck uhr jobs!!"

[@oomachiw111]

Many right leaning voter's call colleges and universities Liberal makers, I thought about it for and what I think happens is when they attend higher learning, the bigoted views that were shown to them growing up, saying this and that of people they never see in their day to day life, once they're surrounded by different people of different ethnic backgrounds they realize what they've been hearing about others is not true and makes them think of other things other things they were taught

[@sherrylynn270]

Fortunately, I almost always have a book in hand. And, I have traveled in 44 of the states. I have traveled to Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Canada, Guatemala, and a layover in the airport in London England. A short excursion into Mexico for a couple hours. One problem is that the majority of people have hardly traveled further than 100 miles from where they were born.

[@zyttoire9410]

Wait... then according to Mark Twain quote and you stating many or most USA citizens are not doing either of those things, that woule mean that most of USA folks are NEITHER ignorants NOR bigots ?

[@theniceguy4932]

We now know why Trump won the first term and a second term , dumb as rocks.

[@Vio-ot4ft]

Once when I (a Canadian) was about 7, we were staying at a KOA campground in California. I was playing at the playground and started playing with another (American) girl, about the same age, maybe a little older. She asked me what state I was from, so I told her "I'm Canadian. In Canada we call them provinces, and I am from British Columbia." She gave me a blank look and said "No. What STATE are you from?" As if I hadn't just explained it to her..... Seven-year-old me was just shaking my head.

[@Oddworld2025]

School has nothing to do with it… it’s pure observation of the moon to know we have one. I have read some say we have small fragments or something like that, that are not technically moons but that I don’t know.

[@Oddworld2025]

I ve only seen one like “everyone ever”

[@Oddworld2025]

All who can see obviously?

[@gordondyer7383]

Only in Planet America as Australian don't give them passports.9 moons ????

[@SailorGerry]

Seven years old, eh? - I've got one over you: back in December 1986, while driving with a friend, in a vehicle with a Quebec licence plate, along the main street of Texarkana, a convertible with 4-5 young people pulled up alongside to our car, alongside a red light and started shouting-up to us and asking questions - one of which was "where are you from?". I motioned to them to pull-off into a gas station parking lot. Once we parked and we got out to talk to them, one of these people of the group (of late-teens / early twenty-year-olds), asked "what state is that - I never heard of that state before?!'. I responded that Quebec is a province, not a state. This resulted in a somewhat quizzled and confused look, in the person asking the question. This prompted me to point-out that a 'province' is like a 'state', and that's what they are called 'up in Canada'. The young people were all very friendly and polite, nonetheless, they seemed to be 'somewhat confused' and bewildered at, possibly, their first encounter at seeing a Quebec licence plate in their town...

[@MaoZhu-j6q]

This is the problem with the US when every day from every US media you are told you are living in the greatest country on the planet you actually believe it and don't bother learning a lot because of it as you feel you are already the best because you are American. The American bubble needs to burst.

[@SallyCox-mw8le]

Couldn't agree more & well said

[@LostFunocity]

Bursting the "forbidden bubble"! Can we mix it up with something flammable and THEN pop it?!

[@lynneanderson4255]

This is the result of the deliberate and chronic underfunding of public schools for the past several decades. The frightening part is ~90% of American children are educated in public schools.

[@gregorybiestek3431]

@@lynneanderson4255 Actually, much of this is the result of “No Child Left Behind” reforms of 2001-02. Since then, education was sacrificed to testing taking. School children are taught not to think but to cram for the next test, then are taught to forget EVERYTHING to concentrate only on what will be on the next test. Therefore, the USA has more than a generation of people who have indoctrinated to never remember anything except what they need to know immediately.

[@dingoo9680]

But similar experiments have been done everywhere and the result is always the same. The video claims it's "the averager american" when in reality it's probably the dumbest people he found.

[@rolon-will3362]

I’m a Brit. Just asked my 10 year old some of these questions. She laughed at how easy it was. Showed her some of the people in the video, she asked if they were getting them wrong on purpose. Really worrying. If there’s a greatest country in the world, the education system would have equipped the citizens to answer these questions. Really disturbing to see, worse than we all expected.

[@gillkati6294]

America used to be great, but its been overtaken by other countries and its all down to education. England has one of the best education systems in the world and its coming into its own now. You have to stop using the multi choice system and teach the children instead of just ticking boxes they actually have to show their working out the problem and how they arrived at their answer. It sounds awful, but start from day one, but God help us they taught my granddaughter BODMAS, now please help me, I tried to help her with her maths, but I just couldn't understand what BODMAS was about. Take a very easy mathematical sum, 2 add 2 is 4, if you use BODMAS then you will probably get 5 or 8 or something like that. If it ain't broke don't fix it, as the saying goes.

[@DJsenas]

...and Europe is wondering- who the hell is voting for Trump?

[@lornaduncan5273]

Folks, this is why they want to ban books.

[@Mariaf12]

Kids.are being taught nothing but how to be an offended left wing idiot..that includes the uk

[@SusanMcEachreon]

@@rolon-will3362 how can this continue? The uneducated belong to a cult.

[@Bondo968]

On holiday in Europe some Americans we met found out we were Canadians. They asked us how we survived having snow all year? I answered “the same way the Americans do who live close to the US -Canada border. They also wanted to know how we managed to keep our igloo’s warm. I laughed because I thought they were joking. They weren’t. Hard to believe One other time serving on a hospital ship in West Africa where people from 35 countries were serving, I was introduced to a young American just out of high school. The first thing she.said. to me was “Do you know we still have a plan to overthrow Canada.”? Don’t get me wrong, she was a great girl, with a parent in the armed forces. I remarked that we had beaten the Americans back once (Andrew Jackson) and the country would get help from Europe, the Uk or whatever was needed. The only advantage would be the warmer States we could move to. Canadians though charitable, kind and polite are fiercely protective of our country and freedoms. I tried to say all this with Canadian politeness and humour. Don’t know if I totally did.?

[@raffaelevalente7811]

A republican us lawmaker recently said in tv that America is a top predator. Which is objectively true. If they want Canada they'll get it. If they want Greenland of Panama they'll get them: who is going to defeat the most powerful military in the world?

[@renab.7390]

The scary thing is that these people are allowed to vote.... 😬

[@michaeli160954]

They voted for Biden. How dumb was that?

[@icebergrose8955]

It explains Donald nuke a hurricane Trump.

[@davidsmith7653]

and breed.

[@AmericanIdiotPolitics]

biden supporters lol

[@hakan8997]

Brainwash is simple!

[@helenwood8482]

I promise, nobody outside America is surprised by any of this. Yes, our five year olds in the rest of the world would get these right.

[@dcallan812]

@@mrskgiggles and reading a clock is basic knowledge.

[@UnknownUser-rb9pd]

Except the American literacy rate is the same as the UK. And over 8 million UK adults are considered functionally illiterate and can't write a simple sentence or read a simple line of text. Just because the majority of us find this simple doesn't mean that we don't have the 10 to 15% who spent their time in the lowest tier classes looking out the window. Plus there are the people who were born with lower IQs or who struggle with learning. 100 is the average IQ and a significant proportion are well below that line.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

I confess to not being able to do arithmetic - I have dyscalculia...sorry. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿☹️

[@antoniotorcoli5740]

The fact that the USA are a nucleare power is frightening

[@malcolmhouston7932]

Including the Countries of South America.

[@wobaguk]

The annoying thing is that they would all probably be able to recall every cast member of Jersey Shore and name every Kanye West song, and think they were knowledgeable.

[@janolaful]

Iv watched meny of these gen z they couldn't name there president yet knew all the kardasins.

[@garycamara9955]

I can't, don't care.

[@garycamara9955]

​@@janolafultheir

[@egorrombach4825]

These questions are not match they are simple arithmetic, a basic survival Skill in an urban culture.

[@mwudzy]

It's almost as if they've been brainwashed into dumbness for a reason, just saying...

[@granvillefery]

I have travelled the world for over 30 years and the ignorance of Americans is astounding

[@annasangjeomstore9427]

Tidak heran ,senator amerika tidak tahu letak singapura😂😂😂

[@miguelgorjao-henriques2839]

But ask an european to identify US states and they would not know

[@rolon-will3362]

@@miguelgorjao-henriques2839Sadly for Americans, I’ll almost guarantee you that the average European knows more about America than the average American. Let alone everything else there is to know. I have befriended and worked with many Americans in Europe. It’s an embarrassing experience for a lot of them while they’re over this way.

[@rosered103]

Ain't that the truth.

[@lordElpus10]

I think it is deliberate. The government want them dumb and fat.

[@heartcenteredtarot]

Sadly, many of these folks voted last month...and they voted for the dumbest amongst them.😂

[@milenamajic]

These folks don't vote Trump so your comment is dumb too

[@Hilton-fc2ob]

Not SURE ,WHEN DONALD TRUMP WAS THE FIRST TIME AMERICAN PRESIDENT, WAS THERE ANY WARS,

[@richardbrinkerhoff]

I was educated in the States and the answers to all these questions were handled in grade school. The level of education since the '50s has plummeted to zero.

[@terrylovelace9077]

I was educated in the sixties and graduated in 1976. I was educated, but it was my parents who instilled a curiosity to learn. If you're too old to learn, then you're too ignorant to realize that existence is a constant source of amazement and curiosity.

[@julians9070]

The Ivy league Universities and Colleges cannot compensate for a nation with an attitude that ignorance is bliss.

[@estherscegolsky1972]

I think ,it’s not the education system ,but the attention span in today’s youth + interests. If the kardashians would do maths on social media,they would know🤣🤣🤣

[@-TheOracle-]

The US has a party called the GOP that fights against funding public education. Get this, some republican red states do not require teachers working in private schools to have an education. That is right, no education at all and you too can become a teacher at a private school. It truly is a mental and a lack of intelligence issue with republicans. Trump loves the uneducated republicans!

[@jonusmanson]

90s/early 2000s here. We could do it in grade school as well.

[@04658IFH]

I was shocked by the lack of confidence the girl who was asked what 33 divided by 3 was. He barely even got the question out before she said that she didn't know. She is programmed to not use her mind.

[@geetabradshaw2828]

Because they are programmed for just Drugs & Guns😂

[@lionelyork4960]

'' the U.S of America is the only country that has gone from barbarism to decadence without ever having known civilization '' Oscar Wilde? 🥴😭

[@lotusbloom-zw5pf]

Not Oscar wilde..... President Clemenceau of France, I think. Not sure if he was a president 😊

[@YvBernard]

N'est-ce pas plutôt Einstein ?

[@Maheli_Seli]

I like this one 👍

[@SusanMcEachreon]

@@lionelyork4960 wise.

[@MegR1999]

She also doesn't know that Europe and the North Pole aren't countries. It's bad, dude. It's bad. Trust us when we say, if you think it was hard for you to watch, imagine how the rest of the world feels. It's terrifying. You don't deserve the power you have. 😢

[@howard1707]

If I were paying tax in the USA, I would want my money back 🙄

[@XPLOSIVization]

Im surprised any of these people in the video can file taxes to be honest

[@KeesBoons]

@@XPLOSIVization Can they?

[@ShizuruNakatsu]

If any of my money was going to the CIA, NSA, etc. Or funding US military black budget programs or other evil/disgusting shit, I'd want my money back too. Put my money into educating people, saving lives, and striving for a better future for everybody.

[@surfaceten510n]

The whole country should get a rebate.

[@philipcable437]

I'm not American and I want my money back.

[@christinec1928]

It took me a long time to figure out why so many young Americans think a quarter of an hour is 25 minutes is because a quarter is 25 cents.

[@jimmybgood982]

so?

[@abelardopin3097]

I guess, you're American.

[@TG-hp8og]

​@@jimmybgood982 Your kidding, right ?

[@DaleRunningbear]

😂 quarter pounder 🍔

[@davidliddle949]

Massive failure of the American Education System

[@alainlefebvre9860]

Seen many videos like the one you're demonstrating for us. It's effing scary is what it is! Like you said, these people vote!!! 🤷🤦

[@elizabethgunn2972]

@@alainlefebvre9860 and unfortunately they did,now in for four years destruction.

[@alainlefebvre9860]

@elizabethgunn2972 at least four..... Everyone is assuming he'll leave after his term this time. I'm not sure.

[@donsland1610]

"Name 3 countries in South America?" is a question that almost every high school kid in Europe or Asia would answer correctly!

[@wormsblink2887]

Brazil and Argentina are obvious because of football, but the 3rd might be hard for kids.

[@finman123]

@@wormsblink2887 If you watch football, then you shoud have heard about Uruguay and Chile for example also.

[@deadeyes4626]

^pre school not ‘’high’’

[@fhlostonparaphrase]

@@gibson617ajg Ok troll.

[@susieq9801]

Or Canada. Don't lump us in with the US PLEASE!

[@leehorrocks5253]

The fact that jellyfish have survived for millions of years without a brain, must bring an awful lot of hope to many Americans 🤦‍♂️

[@diagorosmelos3187]

Haha. Brutal. 🤣🤣

[@brulaapgaapmeester8052]

Still, it is not a brain thing, but an education thing, it seems that the richest country on earth does not want to spend money on a lot of their own children.

[@-TheOracle-]

@@brulaapgaapmeester8052 The US has a party called the GOP that fights against funding public education. Get this, republican red states do not require teachers of private schools to have an education. That is right, no education at all and you too can become a teacher at a private school. It truly is a mental and a lack of intelligence issue with republicans. Trump loves the uneducated republicans!

[@sarahsnowe]

@@brulaapgaapmeester8052 . . . although the SAD (Standard American Diet) is eroding both the mental and physical health of children and adults. A pregnant woman ingesting a diet of mostly UPFs will not produce an optimally healthy baby, and kids fed the edible food-like substances that infest most supermarkets are more likely to suffer cognitive impairment, ADD, ADHD, Type 2 diabetes, and depression. A recent video showed four American high school students--two of whom were very fat--reacting to the school meals served in other countries such as France, Norway, Japan, etc. They were blown away by how nutritious and tasty they were.

[@sushamaranabh]

​​​​@@brulaapgaapmeester8052but the richest countries are Qatar ,Luxembourg, Singapore etc.

[@nelsonortas4796]

As an American Citizen.. I am SHOCKED, as A French Citizen I'm not surprised...

[@Apollorion]

How can you be both? Are you a French Guyanese or so?

[@juanbonilla-x1u]

@@Apollorion Thats a joke, isnt it?

[@Apollorion]

@@juanbonilla-x1u Sort of. I don't wish to imply that being shocked can't coincide with French or American citizenship, but I do still wonder how the latter two can coincide. And I do know that French Guyana is a part of the current French Republic that lays in America.

[@victoriagossani8523]

@@Apollorion He must have the dual nationality. Simple as that.

[@911JHMLLB]

…now you know why Donald Trump was elected. Twice!

[@warrenjones5077]

Orange Donny isn’t great a maths either he’s a bankrupt multiple times . 🤣😂🤣😂

[@SusanneSpence]

Methinks old Donny was just like this when their age. That’s why he says he likes dumb people.

[@BartvandenAkker]

Would make for a nice question.

[@harryhlloyd]

Right, because everyone who’s not a liberal is stupid?

[@zulaytucker9631]

Yes, it is very sad. That's why 98% of spelling bee competitions are won by children from another heritage other than Americans.

Site the source! I just looked that up and cannot find that which you claim!

[@carlosrios2278]

European-American you meant. 🙄

[@VidarLund-k5q]

USAmericans.

[@christianschmidt1556]

As a teacher of 26 years in public school I can say this is right on target. Do not blame your teachers. The product we are sent from home is lazy, disrespectful, and at times violent. We want your kids to prosper but we need your support as parents. Push them hard to work, read with them and to them, extol academic excellence. Make sure your kids behave and help them with their homework. We are in a system where the parents do not support the teacher and also the admin of schools is out to lunch. Everyone gets a blue ribbon and there is no work ethic. Look to East Asia as a model of a working system of education. Also pay your teachers a living wage. In East Asia it is merit based after middle school and you test into the high school and university of your ability level. Asian countries have some of the highest ranked students in the world. MA East Asian Studies Chinese, Taught in Taiwan, Fulbright Scholar Japan 2003, Fulbright Scholar China PRC 2005. God help us if we are ever in a war with the Chinese. Pray for our kids.

[@johnshackford]

Then tell your teachers unions to stop protecting them. Bring back corporal punishment in the schools and this shit would stop really quick. This is what happens when we coddle kids and don't allow them to know what failure looks like. I live in Asia and hate to tell you this but outside of a few countries everyone here gets a trophy as well. Anywhere liberalism is allowed to flourish you can expect the same results. I'm seeing it here in the Philippines where the liberals are taking over the school system.

[@HanChap2]

I'm not a teacher but I do encourage my kids at home. I attend every opportunity the school gives to see how well my kids are doing and aim to help them where the school requests. It always shocks me that I see the same parents attending these opportunities given at school and the usual (and vast amount) of parents NOT attending. Then those parents who don't give a 🤬 blame the teachers saying "it's your job to teach my child" yet those kids are generally obnoxious, out of control, disruptive little monsters who get their mentality from their parents. Even a bad school can have kids leave with amazing grades if the kid wants to learn and is encouraged to do so at home. The teachers aren't there to sort out bad parenting and I feel sad for the effort they put in when it's fought against by parents and kids. Teachers deserve medals because they get paid peanuts, work very long hours (the misconceptions that they work school hours boggles my mind! The hours of lesson planning, marking work, teacher training etc isn't acknowledged by most) and have sooo much to deal with. All they want is to help our kids get somewhere in life!

[@lampsaltlight]

❤

[@mochakho7348]

because there are parents who tolerates the wrong doing of their kids or worst they treat their children so badly that is why they do not know what is right from wrong so the result they dont have anymore interest in going to school and if they do they just bully other kids or worst hurt someone to release their anger,, those people who were been asked i pity them because just a simply questions they dont even know the answer

[@seanmc1351]

i agree with some points, but on many i think your wrong, and, i think alot is down to the schools, the subject material, and the teachers, and the education boards.

[@virtualmadworld]

I was walking around London for what ever reason and this really old couple asked me which way to the Eiffel Tower. I will never, ever forget that. They were deadly serious. I did explain it was in France and with their excited smile said “yes, but thats in Europe”. A great pub story for me. They never did understand what I was trying to tell them 😂😂

[@kerianhalcon3557]

Oh man you really should have pointed South and just said ah about 350km that way.

[@svenvandevelde1]

This is hilarious.

[@nightthornkvala94132]

Were they from the US?

[@virtualmadworld]

@@nightthornkvala94132 Indeed they were.

[@quantisedspace7047]

I came across a USAn near Green Park. They asked me the way to Buck Ing Heeurm. I put them on a train at Marylebone to Aylesbury and told them to get a particular bus to Buckingham from there.

[@AnniKlami]

From Finland. English IS My 3rd language. Answered all the questions. Trump says he loves The uneducated. Seems he has a lot to love.

[@andypandy9013]

Out of interest I recently compared the news stories on a UK TV channel as compared to a US TV channel. For the UK I used the BBC evening bulletin and for the US I used the NBC one. The results were interesting. BBC Domestic stories: 7 (54%) Stories involving both the UK and a foreign country: 2 (15%) Purely foreign stories: 4 (31%) NBC Domestic stories: 9 (90%) Stories involving both the US and a foreign country: 1 (10%) Purely foreign stories: 0 (0%) I think that tells you all you need to know about the lack of knowledge that most Americans have about the world outside their borders.

[@daisytwotoes]

Apparently they don't know much about what's inside their borders, either.

[@Bethi4WFH]

Well done.....that was an interesting excercise........frightening, but interesting!

[@andypandy9013]

@@Bethi4WFH Thank you. It was a result of an interesting conversation I had with a good friend whose Daughter moved to the USA some 5 years ago. He was saying that the only way that she could find out what was happening outside the USA was by watching the BBC TV News via a VPN. I therefore decided to do some research. As you can see, on the evidence of one day anyway, she wasn't wrong. 🤔

[@LaviniaBowman]

They don't even know what's within the borders.

[@cliffbird5016]

Even the BBC doesnt report real news or get it right. IE 9/11 BBC new 24 had a photo on the wall behind the anchor and he said breaking new sa plane has just crashed into 1 of the towers at the WTC. then he said oops forget u heard that it hasnt happened yet.. i checked every news statioj on TV and radio and none of them were reporting it. 1 hr later they put it up again and all the others started as well. later 1 BBC rep[orter was in new york and siad brreakig news tower 7 has just collpaed but it was still standing and in full view behind the reporter. it didnt come down till 20 mins later. So either the BBC knew what was going on in advance or were trying to blow the whistle it was all faked. and it was a demolition job not planes hitting it.

[@BedsitBob]

"What state are we in right now?" A state of educational collapse. 😁

[@crisalcantara7671]

Liquid state

[@Yandarval]

"I was not expecting it to be as bad as this". All the none US people were expecting exactly this.

[@elleaubry3772]

What a foolish thing to say.

[@nono86753]

That was supposed to be “non” instead of “none”. You should learn how to spell before making fun of other people

[@davidwatkins8478]

​@@elleaubry3772not at all, it's true.

[@elleaubry3772]

@@nono86753 LOLOLOLOLOL they have already dispatched the rest of the grammar Nazis. You should be at your second or third job because Felon Trump needs money.

[@patelk3648]

Is school actually compulsory in the U.S. ?

[@JillKoehler-b5h]

I'm a dual citizen, born and raised in Canada, but I got my American citizenship and lived in Ohio for 20 years. A a Canadian, I believe I know more about the USA than most Americans do, and we learned the geography of the world too. What a concept. I'm sorry to say that this video IS indicative of many Americans. Some of my GOD American friends have no clue that the border to Canada was only 3 hours north of where we lived in Ohio. It's mind numbing, honestly, and it explains everything about where the country is currently headed, due to a complete lack of critical thinking abilities.

[@SusanMcEachreon]

@@JillKoehler-b5h republicans made sure education was not available to everyone. They love the uneducated.

[@31Blaize]

If this is the level of trivia in the US, I'm coming over and winning all your pub quizzes 🤣

[@CarolanneTitmus-Greene]

Absolutely.

[@Irene-Donald]

Me too! 🤣🤣

[@draculakickyourass]

Noo,their trivia questions are like: ,,how are you?'' ,,what's your name?'',stuff like that.

[@SirHilaryManfat]

Agreed. I'm useless at pub quizzes, but I feel I'd be king of the quiz in the US. 🤣

[@speleokeir]

Sod that I want to go on the US edition of 'Who wants to be a millionaire'!

[@larrykinglk]

Man... this is scarry. No condescension whatsoever. It is not about stupidity or dumbness. It's about CONCERN. These people are not concerned. They do not care. At all.

[@debbieann921]

That's because ignorance is bliss.

[@DerekBroughton-y7e]

What is scary..jesus christ are you people that dumb

[@carolwaller9605]

@@debbieann921and it doesn’t help when the interviewer tells them they are right when they are wrong..

[@VinnyTheHack]

They know that in America, you can become filthy rich without "encumbering" your brain with "useless shite".

[@newprofilesowhat1339]

*scary...

[@MayahCamaraMusic]

The guy saying yes at the end is driving me crazy!

[@lesliebury136]

I’m a 75 yr old Canadian, and so proud to be Canadian. I think your u-tube site is so much fun (we Canadians can laugh at ourselves) and informative (I’ve learned some interesting Canadian facts on your site. Keep up the good work.😊

[@daniellelamothe3711]

We have Guy Nantel a succesfull comedien, Who show picture of our Provincial Premier and some dont even recognise ...Ouch 😮

[@r8421]

5 of those questions should randomly be placed at the top of every ballot form. 1 wrong answer and you vote is not counted.

[@sarahsnowe]

That would stop almost all Trump supporters voting. Hell, it would stop Donald Trump voting. Bring it on.

[@liljanasufaj4130]

Good idea! They could have put these questions to the Brexiteers too in England. Seriously, their answers to why they were voting "out" were utterly ridiculous.

[@johnshackford]

@@sarahsnowe Funny thing. the states with the highest SAT scores are pretty much all Trump states. Number one in the country Wisconsin with a republican governor and a republican controlled congress number two those sheep farmers in Wyoming no 3 Kansas no 4 Utah no 5. Mississippi n0 6 the only blue state is Minnesota no 7 Nebraska think you know where this is going. We don't see another deep blue state till no 18 which is Oregon. New York is ranked 31st in the country in education so this shit right here does not surprise me a bit. Tell me again about how dumb Trump supporter are? This is what happens when you replace education with indoctrination and lower education standards and give kids a rubber stamp education. No wonder liberals are pushing to remove the SAT's as a requirement to get into college. Hell my eleven year who is being educated in the Philippines could answer these question especially the history and geography questions because I'm teaching him the other half of his heritage.

[@suzanaslejmar6166]

Trump would never be elected 😅😅cos he is dum as a post 😅

[@BrianFlyingPenguin]

@@sarahsnowe If you think Biden would outperform Trump, I'll take that bet.

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

That is not "math", that is "arithmetic". It is for small children.

[@envaleorex7361]

Actually, I think we're down to "numbers" at this point

[@wrmacdonald9383]

@@envaleorex7361 LOL

[@marvinfok65]

Seriously, don't blame China for getting ahead of the US. You won't believe how smart average Chinese kids were!

[@chriscollins3128]

"Were"? What's happened to them now?

[@ninamenon]

Kids from India win 99%of the spelling bees"!

[@zyttoire9410]

Well, obviously they are smart enough to build iPhones in factories, hmmm.... right ?

[@jeroenvanmerrienboer3624]

This is why in America Donald Trump is considered a candidate for president. In the Netherlands he would not even get a second look to take him seriously.

[@neilbradley5011]

In any European country Trump wouldn't get a job as a road sweeper.

[@warrenjones5077]

Trump the clown wouldn’t be allowed to run as a convicted felon in many countries . 🤣😂

[@Aeroxima]

Perhaps surprising to you, most of the people shows in this series of videos would be voting against Trump. It's not that hard to tell sometimes, many of them have giveaways directly on their clothing (more in another video of the series, less in this one specifically). That's not to support or be against any candidate, but it stands out as quite obvious to me. The truth on how it works out that way is more complex, but I'm sure you don't care to read about it, if youtube would even let the comment through (which on that topic is significantly more unlikely)

[@smogmonster1876]

Took the words out of my mouth.

[@Shannon-tn2vm]

And Geert Wilders??

[@ushmush4074]

Just asked my 4 year old how many moons we have. She held one finger up and looked at me as if I had a screw loose just for asking.

[@hfhjfx]

It drives me crazy that this guy says yes to all their wrong answers

[@barbaradalziel9421]

He had to when he corrected people they argued with him

[@daniellelarivee6292]

He doesn’t want to embarrass the kids.

[@ohmikesroh5904]

At least correct their wrong answers and teach them the right information. Don't let them go away thinking they got it right when they were really so absolutely wrong!!!

[@nerighal2889]

..it just wouldn't make a difference to correct them - they are already lost...

[@tobyndutchess4415]

If he said no, would they have refused permission to be on KZbin? Do you need to concent if someone else films you?

[@faridasarwat6523]

My Pakistani daughter studying in the US was once asked where she was from. On saying Pakistan she was asked : "In which state is that?"

[@stanislavkolacny609]

I loved Your reaction at 10:10 to "Isn't the North Pole below us?".

[@nancystowell4877]

"Sooner or later, our technology will be so advanced, we will have entire generations of idiots." - the quote is often attributed to Albert Einstein, however, it has never been verified. Now you understand why Americans re-elected Donald Trump! God help us all.

[@odonnelly46]

It has already begun! We are living our lives surrounded by tens of millions of absolute idiots, also known as MAGAs.. Most of them have the functional education of an elementary school child.

[@craigriglin]

I really wish the guy wouldn’t say yes when they are wrong. This just reinforce bad behavior.

[@Hilton-fc2ob]

True, he should have helped,them,or give them the right answer, asking them where they get that answer, from

[@alisonwhyte8885]

This is what I expect from Americans, doesn't surprise me at all.

[@mackwiz1]

Imagine your country sharing an unprotected border.

[@javagl1]

Omg! And One of Trump agenda if he win will close the Department of education!its going to be worse!

[@gobalmighty7463]

@@mackwiz1 Imagine being a xenophobe!

[@mackwiz1]

@@gobalmighty7463 : Ha ha ha. It is sane to expect security in ones own country.

[@noteverton]

Americans won't use metric measurements because counting to 10 is tricky.

[@Cantbuyathrilll]

@@noteverton Counting to 10 is indeed tricky because ZERO is supposed to come before ONE, not after it; which makes counting to 100 and outright impossibility.

[@honestly679]

😅😅

[@juanbonilla-x1u]

@@Cantbuyathrilll Damm, they will go insane checking binary code, in fact used to program Math in a computer..

[@washingtonreincarnate]

Honestly as an american I've always hated the imperial system, it's so old and makes no sense and it's so complicated. Maybe it's because I have immigrant parents or because I like science and astronomy but I’ve always preferred metric since it's so much simpler. Maybe it’s just me but my school doesn't really bother teaching us imperial, they just kind of throw it at us and expect us to know it, I basically rely on the conversion charts when it comes to imperial. Metric is a lot easier to remember and it's what I've always been taught by my parents

[@bhupindergoindi8754]

😂😂

[@SpiritmanProductions]

So many smooth brains, it's really unsettling.

[@DeerheartStudioArts]

It disturbs me that the interviewer confirms their wrong answers!

[@Notts.Bloke.]

Maybe he’s so embarrassed he just says yes to get rid of them ?

[@sharonkeetch596]

Leaves them thinking they are smarter than lame ducks. Not surprised.

[@victoriagossani8523]

In 2000 my French family received family relatives from USA. Two of the girls where university students. One of them was saying how much she have been surprised to discover when she makes this travel that to go to France they have to cross a sea! (an ocean actually!). She was genuinely thinking that it was possible to coming from USA to Europe by road!

[@yggdrasil7942]

Didn't understand anything of that paragraph.

[@sviatoslavua2309]

Well, technically it would be possible, if there is a bridge or tunnel through the Bering Strait

[@victoriagossani8523]

@@sviatoslavua2309 Technically possible, but with a big "if"!😜

[@lizzymccormic3328]

That's not new, our comedian was quoting Americans and it seems to be a very common mistake 😂

[@bdobson1616]

my daughter was questioned by these guys , answered all correctly. they said thanks and moved on looking for the air heads.

[@markdecker6190]

Yeah of course they're going to edit out the correct ones and just show us the worst of the worst. Would have been even more effective I think if let's say every six answers there was one who got it right, just to give us a sense of hope if nothing else.

[@rutharmstrong56]

Still disturbing that they could find so many uneducated young people b

[@debblanch5977]

The supreme act of American idiocy is voting Trump in a second time.

[@Danielle-b2z]

AMEN!!! And we're watching closely as you destroy yourselves, and that's NOT funny at all.

[@Attirbful]

wanna bet they all can name every Kardashian, their sequence of partners, and kids?!

[@wombatwilly1002]

Exactly!

[@matthiascerebri3315]

Kim, kendall, chloe

[@Unwoken_European]

I can't but i know who the parents of Alexander the Great.

[@kerianhalcon3557]

I would not take that bet.

[@soba_entertainment]

😂

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

Americans, on average, are NOT dumb. In fact, the problem is that they're very generous. The person in an average suburban neighbourhood in the US, shares his/her single brain cell with everyone on the street. 😂

[@johankaewberg8162]

But some truly are stupid. Law of averages I guess.

[@Mousse9]

Got me in the first half.

[@Foxhunter49]

Americans tend to be very insular. They might know about US history but nothing about the rest of the world. Having said that, not just in America but many other countries children are taught to pass exams to 'up' the school, but not information that is useful.

[@martinwoollett8468]

considering the support for trump it's a closed case.

[@Me-wi5il]

😂😂😂😂 You got me at first... I was tilting my head going... ummmm and then died laughing

[@robertcaldwell2994]

This is the age of willful ignorance. People don't know anything without asking Google. Many of these people can vote and in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.

[@robertbisson964]

Now you know why Orange Trump was elected.

[@martinwinthernielsen8514]

I live in Vietnam and my boy, now 11 years old attend an American school - mainly to learn proper English. The school books are all American and I help him to do his homework. He learn a lot of things not taught in Vietnamese schools, but it is 100% about the USA. Nothing wrong with the USA, but nothing wrong with most of the rest of the world either. We are all one family, even if not all family members are welcomed equally enthustiatically. The same happens in all families, but by teaching American history exclusively and even omitting the less flattering elements, will create ignorant people. Not all deeds of the past were glorious. Why not tell our children that we made mistakes and some of them were grave. This to teach them that we are human and makes mistakes but together we aim to build a better world. Please notice that Vietnamese in general forgave the Americans, because they understood that the young men were sent here to save the Vietnamese from kommunism. The war ended and they are a happy people now. Teach your children well and they will build a world in peace. We are one family, but some uncles or aunts are the black sheep. Tolerate them but never let them control your life

[@gustru2078]

They would need books in english from anywhere BUT the states to be properly educated even on North America itself. Seriously. And nothing wrong with learning languages other than english too. Je sais que les franco-vietnamiens existent aussi :)

[@tristanmaclennan2989]

You should have had him get an English book from the UK where he would have learned to at spell English words correctly

[@steveroberts728]

Why send a child to an American school to learn English ? Most have no idea how to speak English properly.

[@TheIndarian]

They literally have a building CALLED the Pentagon... smh

[@thatcedric]

I was visiting valley of the Kings in Egypt. We were deep underground in a very elaborately decorated tomb. An American lady said "do you think they had discovered fire by this time".

[@viderethevaccinatorfromhol7536]

No 😂😂😂😂 Damn. They had science and knowledge about astrology.

[@julians9070]

Very likely that American lady never bothered to research ancient Egypt before she left her neighbourhood . Would she know that Egypt was called Kemet? I wonder what impression she made towards the tour guide. We don't need to travel with ignorant and narrow minded tourists.

[@scotcam1940]

Hee Haw

[@Mimsyx2]

They should try asking people over 40. These are all young people.

[@user-ot6cw3ws1q]

"Number of dumb people is infinite"

[@gaiaiulia]

I feel your pain, Tyler. And you're quite right, why is the guy not telling them the correct answer?

[@paulbromley6687]

Tyler your soulful facial expression when you said “ oh no, no oh that’s bad, really bad” creased me up, you looked like a disappointed dad watching his little kid embarrass themselves in public.

[@anncampbell4892]

the british know more about the americans than the americans do

[@sandyfoad2254]

Very definitely

[@woutervandenbosch8161]

Most people in Europe probably know more about the USA than most of the Americans, not just the British.

[@tardeliesmagic]

So true. I'm sure British people will say 10 european capitals easy.

[@MangaSamte]

​@@tardeliesmagic I'm sure they'll be able to name the capitals of 10 different European countries but 10 European capitals... I doubt it. 😅

[@tardeliesmagic]

@@MangaSamte The youngsters no,def not as they're always looking down on their phones

[@ShizuruNakatsu]

Even where we use the metric system, we still know there are 12 inches in a foot. We learn things about other countries, other cultures, other religions, and other systems, even if we don't use them in our country.

[@saydvoncripps]

Yes. I said 24 as he asked the question. We also know how to read roman numerals. Can convert Fahrenheit to Celsius, approximately. But I thought the education system here in the UK was bad when my 14 year old granddaughter didn't know what an aqueduct was.

[@ShizuruNakatsu]

@@saydvoncripps I can't speak for the UK specifically, but here in Ireland, we learnt about the Roman Empire; including it's infrastructure and inventions, in first year. That's usually when you're about 13. That's when we learnt about things like the aqueduct, the Roman forum, Roman roads such as the Via Sacra and the Via Appia, rooms in the Roman house, etc.

[@kankerbende]

I am Dutch, and I didn't know that 12 inch equals one feet. Bud anyway, I totally dislike the imperial system ! Metric is so much easier !

[@skadiwarrior2053]

​@@ShizuruNakatsuvery similar to Britain. At least when i went to school.

[@decakjeisaozasuncem8843]

i think usa citizens must make time travel machine to be able to answer questions which are above the intelligence of a dead baby squirrel XD

[@colinclark9162]

what's really worrying....is the fact that you're a 'super power'........

[@stanislavkolacny609]

5:52 Apparently there is "Left coast", "Right coast", "Up America" and "Down America".

[@DatShepTho]

And Right coast is the West naturally

[@KorkytheKat-h3c]

Just say "Down America"

[@draculakickyourass]

...and in the center is named,,Thick America''?

[@Dirk-Ulowetz]

😂🤣😆

[@wendymurdoch7369]

It surprised me when President Bush Sr didnt know that Canada was north of the USA. Acting president at the time.

[@shallowgod5539]

No way. I refuse to believe that

[@quantisedspace7047]

So what? We now have Lammy and Abbot.

[@delroyhawkins6225]

Lammy and Abbot are not uneducated. Black people can't achieve in a white country without brains 😢

[@christopherjohnHolmes]

the guy with hand in shorts is rubbing his Brain 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@whatisthecrimeyoucommiebastard]

a modern day AL BUNDY.

[@Dutch-linux]

or been watching too many all bundy episodes 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@mintybee5003]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@Edzilbur]

This Tyler guy is actually a better American than the average, I like this

[@camillebeaujolie1271]

This reminds me of when Gary Johnson (who was a candidate for President) didn't know where Aleppo was (a place US troops were fighting at the time). You would think that a person seeking to be the Commander-in-Chief would at least familiarize himself with the active hot spots ...

[@annasangjeomstore9427]

Seperti senator amerika yg tidak tahu letak negara singapura pada waktu mengundang ceo tiktok😂

[@david-jr5fn]

In Europe even a drunk dyslexic guy would give you the correct answer...btw that's me 😂

[@quantisedspace7047]

Indeed, you'd be hard pressed to find an inebriated homeless dude in Britain who couldn't form a critique on Skaespeate, explain his thoughts on fiscal policy, explain orbital mechanics, explain the conundra in Q Mechanics. One homeless guy near me said he was part housed and part homeless, depening on which agency he talked to . "I'm like Schrödinger's Bum" he said

[@paulahillier1390]

The way he says "yes" and the look of triumph on the persons face answering the question. 🤣

[@venkatadevaraya]

his satire is excellent and yours is beyond

[@chrisberry9017]

@@venkatadevarayabut you’ve got to understand satire to appreciate it, and it’s beyond these folks

[@nightthornkvala94132]

These videos make me whimper and cry.

[@margaretnicol3423]

That's not 'math'. That's arithmetic that little kids do.

[@charko4191]

true How did you go trough 3 grade IF you don't know that

[@xarisstylianou]

This young female father must be realy proud!!!! I bet she could answer what hair style is in fashion What the hell osgoing on in these schools ???? God bamm i can tell U the price of coke !!!! Do theynow takeshoplifting in school or steling cars Iknow its being stupid and voting for trump. 😚😚😚😚🤣🤣🤣😭

[@dcallan812]

you need more than a single number to do maths, or it has to be plural. right?🤣🤣

[@rosieposie6521]

Maths is the shortened name for MATHEMATICS.......NOT MATHEMATIC. MATH IS NOT A SHORTENED WORD FOR "ANYTHING" NO SURPRISE THOUGH COMING FROM AMERICANS. YOU AMERICANS ARE " SURPRISED" BY HOW IGNORANT AMERICANS ARE, NOBODY ELSE IN ANY COUNTRY IN EUROPE IS SURPRISED ABOUT IT. SHAMEFULL. 🇬🇧

[@brigidsingleton1596]

It's not even "math" ... It's ' _Maths_ ' - mathematic_s_.

[@stuartfitch7093]

As a Brit born and bred I could name all 50 states in the US, their state capital and identify that state on a list of state flags. Years ago I visited the US on holiday and toured some of the American civil war stuff. Long before I visited I had educated myself on the American civil war and that's what had initially piqued my interest in visiting some of the battlefields and museums. There was one incident of note. I was in a civil war museum in Georgia talking to one of the female curators. I was talking about some of the things I knew about the American civil war. Next thing the curator was in tears because, she said, I knew more about the American civil war than the vast majority of Americans. At the time I was in my early 20s. In contrast, a few years ago I had to explain to my middle aged American friends the difference between England, Britain and the UK. I admit I was a slow developer as a child, I left secondary school with no GCSE passes but only three years later I was at university. I have always said, it is not a crime being thick, it is only a crime to want to stay thick. You are never too old to learn something new and I have personally found that things like my dad spinning a world globe and pointing to random countries which we (myself and my two older sisters) had to name and TV documentaries on such as the History channel really educated me. I learnt much more outside the classroom than in it. Your mind just has to be open and willing to learn.

[@stuartfitch7093]

I would just add that I regularly have an IQ test and my most recent one was in excess of 130. I'm sure as sure can be this is way more than the day I left school though I've no starting number to quote. The UK average IQ is currently around 100. This shows how much self education can work so blaming teachers isn't really an excuse you can use your whole life. You can always watch a TV documentary and pick up facts or you can read a book.

[@sabinereimer7809]

You are right... the REAL learning starts AFTER leaving school. I am from Germany... my English was very bad in school. I am 70 now and speaking English fluently because I am watching History, Discovery, Oddiceia and National Geographic Channel in Portugal every night... and with the Portuguese subtitles my Portuguese is also getting better each day. It's never too late!😂❤❤❤

[@georgesheffield1580]

Same ,from Panama ,not just from the US ,but all of north and south AMERICA by 3rd grade

[@Dirk-Ulowetz]

I'm from Germany. When I visited Switzerland, I spoke to a Swiss guy. When I mentioned, that Switzerland has 4 languages (German, French, Italian and rhetoromanic) the guy said to me: "this don't know most of the Swiss people. And than, there is a German, who knows it. I can't believe it..."

[@B-A-L]

Can you name every county and county seat in England though?

[@turkeybaster6247]

My Granddaughter is 9 in grade 3 in BC she just learned about analog clocks a few weeks ago in school. She was so excited to tell me. This stuff should be taught in elementary school, no left to parents.

[@viderethevaccinatorfromhol7536]

😮 that's late

[@Vio-ot4ft]

@@viderethevaccinatorfromhol7536 That's about when I learned clocks - maybe grade 2. Also in BC.

[@whiskybrush3219]

It's still taught but its sonrarely used it doesnt tend to stick. Very rare now is the household that still owns a clock. I cant even name 5 people that still wear a watch.

[@linetriangleisasussybaka]

In Singapore kids learn to read time in kindergarten. In grade 3 kids can multiply and divide and start learning fractions.

[@tepin1955]

What? Where I come from, kids learn how to read the analog clock at age 6 or even younger.

[@MarkAdlen]

Now you understand why some people think trump should be president. 😭😭😭

[@PragerFenster]

I, as a German, used to love American spelling contests when I was in High School. And I would always go: What? This is SO easy! And I am 16 years old and not even a native speaker of English!

[@lord9562]

I just did a small check on spelling bee contests from 1999 to 2024 (in 2020 it was not held). Some years had multiple winners, like in 2019 there were 8 winners of which 5 had Indian names. 2014, 2015, 2016 also had 2 winners each. It was astounding to note that in these 25 years, there were 26 winners with Indian names (obviously most would be American Citizens, perhaps second generation or even third). That is primarily because most who migrate are coming from good institutions teaching professional programs and are looking for Masters and PhDs and they have a strong focus that their children should excel in their studies. This has been the focus in India for millennia.

[@FelisLeopard]

And then you think about those people having a Student Debt on top of their level of knowledge... Feels like scam.

[@edgeofeternity744]

Then think about them having children...

[@douglasbair5647]

He’s driving me crazy, stop saying yes and let them know they are wrong and stupid!

[@carguy99]

.. I think that's his way of letting the viewers know that this guy/gal is a moron...

[@user-ot6cw3ws1q]

He answers yes because a woman started to argue him saying her wrong answer was correct.😊

[@robertshorthill6836]

He says Yes, because he doesn't want to hurt their poor little feelings. They have never in their whole lives had to be confronted by FAILURE. They probably got medals, trophies, rewards all their childhood years, even if they were not doing very well at the tasks at hand. Experience has taught them they don't have excell to get through life. They don't exhibit any sense of curiousity for anything in the natural or real world.

[@catherinethomas7681]

I was in Florida and in a chain store. They had something that really fit me. I asked if they had a store in Buffalo NY. I was told there was no State call NY. It is a city. I could not convince her otherwise.

[@ShizuruNakatsu]

Most Americans couldn't name 3 countries in South America? I'm from Ireland and I can name them all. Everybody I know would at least get Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Ecuador. Those are so well known that an 8 year old would name them.

[@GA-ik6pi]

Yup along with Colombia, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana

[@ArleneKing1372]

I'm Canadian & was never interested in geography so I couldn't name but one or two ... and they would be guesses :(

[@clothilde1623]

I suspect a lot of people don’t realise that Mexico is in North America. I once had to message a quiz app and correct them on that 😬

[@patsykenny9188]

I'm Irish also this is unbelievably what planet are these people living on ... WOW

[@patsykenny9188]

I still remember imperial measures.. although I use metric

[@helenroberts1107]

I think I’m more worried that she thinks the North Pole is below America 😮😂

[@speleokeir]

Well if the pole flips as it's done before one day she'll be right - She just ahead of her time!😀

[@clothilde1623]

That was the most baffling one to me. Does she think the US is…in space?? 😂

[@sushamaranabh]

​@@clothilde1623us is a part of earth so it is actually in space

[@clothilde1623]

@@sushamaranabh Don’t be so bloody pedantic, you knew exactly what I meant. Or do you really think I don’t know where EARTH is? 🙄

[@user-gr5tx6rd4h]

We usually see north as up and south as down but that is a random convention! Globes might have been made with the south pole on top. That would seem very strange to us now because of the convention. Really, at any place on the earth's surface "down" is the direction towards the center of the earth and "up" is the opposite direction. In space, with practically no gravitation, there is no "up" and "down". The Australians are really no more "down under" than the British.

[@lisafedele7884]

A generational issue. The parents could not answer either and would not care.

[@ThePontiacBandit911]

Because their *own* parents didn’t reinforce these lessons at home, either.

[@user-gr5tx6rd4h]

@@ThePontiacBandit911 Teacher: OK, this homework was not so easy, but you, Peter, made it pretty well. Tell me, did your father get some help from his father???

[@alexanderscottrell8627]

The maths is so simple I’d expect the vast majority to get those answers right . This is like 6-8 year old level stuff

[@patriciahopey1384]

laughter is a defense mechanism, help protect the person from feeling humiliated, etc

[@TerencePearse-x3j]

Children until the age of 11 should not be allowed calculators. Mental Arithmetic should be a mandatory in schools.

[@Richard-b2t3t]

When I applied to join the RAF in the late 1960’s the Maths exam was mental arithmetic, addition, subtraction, multiplication & division. The problems started simple & small, such as 2+2=? But rapidly became more difficult and large, such as 4,485 divided by 299. I was given one minute to answer as many as I could. They were looking to find how many I could answer correctly in the time given. A minimum quantity was required with an accuracy of 100%. Calculators were not allowed & would have been too slow anyway. The fact that I had a GCE grade 1 in maths had no bearing on the matter.

[@Kiki-vz5tk]

It was and it is in Italy. I still remember the extraction of the square root.... Similar to a root canal at the beginning LOL

[@octoberphoenix]

"He might be done with high school...", I have a feeling that judging by his response, high school might be done with him.

[@nanettecormier8513]

Why would an inner city young man need a compass?

[@leonardochapman4736]

​@@nanettecormier8513 it's general knowledge that anyone should have

[@bee3541-y7s]

​@@nanettecormier8513if they go hiking when they're older, it would be handy to have an idea They should know as general knowledge

[@octoberphoenix]

@@nanettecormier8513 What has owning a compass got to do with anything? I don't own a compass, It's a matter of common knowledge.

[@Carrie-so3ro]

@@nanettecormier8513 You NEED to be able to know how to follow directions! ie. "Go North & then turn East..." There are times a person cannot rely on GPS or their phone to help them. (Their phone may get lost, damaged, be out of energy, in an area with no signal, or even there could be a power outtage incl. at the cell phone receptor site. It HAS HAPPENED & will VERY, VERY likely happen again!) YOU NEED to know how to GET BY ON YOUR OWN BRAIN POWER - not only on the internet's!

[@SHERRYMCMORRAN]

This is nothing new to the west of the world. Some of us encounter this level of ignorance daily. US education system sucks.

[@jamesscott5603]

"Everyone isnt always good at math"- saying that watching these failures is like watching a fella try to use a knife and fork end up stabbing themselves in both eyes and saying "not everyone is a michelin chef"

[@dwaijer]

LoL!

[@suerasbridge8494]

😂😂😂

[@quantisedspace7047]

'everyone isn't always'? What sort of nonsense is that? Do you mean 'not everyone always is" ?

[@Lisa-jn7vx]

The math questions are elementary.

[@richardhockey8442]

Justin always says 'yes' - apart from in one video where he corrects a woman who spends the next five minutes arguing her answer was correct, after which he just gave up

[@knowledgeisgood9645]

That was way too weak a reason. I think someone could have tried to sue him or something similar.

[@Cantbuyathrilll]

15% of 100 is the actual number of highschoolers academically qualified to go to college.

[@scotcam1940]

The reason your universities are full of foreigners.

[@scotcam1940]

God help America.

[@Cantbuyathrilll]

@@scotcam1940 We are well past that point. The New World Order is afoot, a foot up our asses.

[@kjellmesch8060]

15% is 15% regardless of the total number, so you post is a bit weird actually.

[@Almethese84]

@@kjellmesch8060 Ummm... I suggest that you read the original post and your response to it again. You are kind of self reporting here.

[@jamesjoy7374]

Commentator states "I know that us Americans (sic) have a reputation...". If you are going to comment on the poor education Americans have received you should get help from someone to make sure you are using correct grammar.

[@greamepenney5947]

Tyler just cracked me up ."he gave a range of numbers and still wrong " said in such a flat time.

[@andyonions7864]

Indeed, if you have to give a range, it should be , minus infinity to infinity....

[@thatsmessedupmydude]

"what state are we in right now" an altered state

[@Vegeta900X]

The first guy with the clock question was way of. The correct answer is 1:50 not 2:50. If you watch the footage again you will see that the hour handle hasn't reached the nr 2 position yet.

[@JanSolo555]

I’m 61, and they used to teach clock reading in elementary school. I think they have stopped that now, which is stupid.

[@nimwey7701]

@@yorkshirehousewife784 we in the netherlands say it the same way

[@dazlebluefrogify]

As it was afternoon we'd say 13,50 in France or " deux heures moins dix" 2hours less 10 in english translation which doesn't sound right 😂

[@Vegeta900X]

@philw8741 Are you saying I am way of for calling it a handle or are you agreeing with me? Because i live in Sweden and we call it a Tim-visare (Hour pointer) and minut visare (Minut pointer). I was just using the name that i have heard the most from people living in the USA.

[@thorbjrnhellehaven5766]

​@@yorkshirehousewife784 basically the same in Norway. Even reading a digital clock, regardless if it's 1.50 or its 13.50 I would say "10 to 2".

[@richardgaudreault7095]

I heard that if the school has a bad average they get less money, so they make it easier for the student to pass. Its all about money not education.