USA vs Europe (Intelligence) | Americans React | Loners

[@micade2518]

It's not stupidity, it's ignorance and, worse, lack of interest!

[@module79l28]

7:20 - That's the lamest excuse I've ever heard, you don't need to go to a different place to know things about that place or where it is located. I'm portuguese and I've never travelled to any of the other continents but I can say where the large majority of African, Asian, American and the Oceania's countries are on a map. I can even point where the majority of the US states are located but I taught myself that!

[@noefillon1749]

You don't need to but you are far more likely to look at maps if collectively, people un your country need it more and value geography knowledge more

[@tubekulose]

Well said! 👍 Greetings from Austria!

[@herrrorschach590]

Our school teached us about history and geography of the whole world, in the US they study only US. Why should they care about the others 206 nations in this world, when they believe they're inferior to them?

[@mormel12]

It's not about intelligence, it's about education

[@laziojohnny79]

Easy excuse, I'm Dutch, quite well educated and yet learned most of my topographical and geographical knowledge not in school, but due to traveling and a personal interest in everything concerning maps. I think it's not so much an intelligence or educational issue, but one of genuine interest or rather a lack of. Keep in mind we Europeans often say there is a lack of (proper) education in the US when it comes to topics like this, yet the US has the best-surveyed education system on the globe! American students however consistently score lower in math and science than students from many other countries.

[@mattsmith5421]

Exactly quite well educated, if you had no education then more than likely you wouldn't have a desire to enhance your advanced knowledge. It's about education and a desire to know. I have never travelled abroad yet I've learnt so much about geography history astronomy geology empires rivers dinosaurs great battles to name a few. Pretty much everything apart from written English celebrities and bugs. Saying you have to travel to learn is utter nonsense no astronomers go to space.

[@laziojohnny79]

@@mattsmith5421 And I didn't, but apparently you were to eager to comment and therefore didn't read my comment properly or are not able to understand what's being said...

[@mormel12]

School isn't the only place to be educated. You can educate yourself as welll, like you did

[@mattsmith5421]

@@laziojohnny79 yes you did you said education is an easy excuse, in fact you doubled down on it and said you're educated but learned after you left school. So you either have a problem with reading or comprehension because you totally ignored the point of my comment education is the foundation for furthering your knowledge later on, instead you went for a laughable "oh you're keen to comment" slur, you know the type of things f00ls do when someone disagrees with "their" opinion.

[@filipecastro8675]

Dont tell me that people not knowing a country from a continent or what countries border your own country is because they dont travel

[@uweseemann8571]

I'm not making fun of the USA because of a few people who were too poor to go to a good school. I'm laughing at the USA because they wanted to choose their president between two mummies.

[@roamingcurious6730]

The crowdstrike (IT) outage was worldwide btw. And yes, we euros know probably more about US politics than many americans. Our news agencies (see BBC) show news from all over the world.

[@DigiDivide]

Also the fact that the USA is a single country with a single political structure. Whereas Europe is a continent divided up into 44 countries, each with their own politians and political structures. We know a lot about USA politics as many of us take an interest, very minor number of USA citizens take an interest in European politics. But yeah, difficult to really draw many comparisons when its USA vs Europe as its a country vs a continent.

[@winterlinde5395]

Also: DW, france24😊

[@DigiDivide]

@@winterlinde5395 what a mess that is ay!

[@DianeLittle-dd6ej]

@@DigiDivide50 countries in the EU

[@micade2518]

@@DianeLittle-dd6ej Nope! Do not confuse Europe, the Continent (50 countries indeed) with the E(uropean) U(nion) that 27 of the 50 European countries adhere to.

[@tubekulose]

7:20 Sorry, but that's a lame excuse. You don't have to travel to know geography. An astronomer doesn't have to be an astronaut and a historian doesn't have to be a time traveller either. And only blaming the public educational system is also a short-sighted thing to do. Everyone, who really wants to broaden his or her horizons, can easily do so with a little bit of commitment.

[@lamaglama6231]

If you are talking about 19th of july - it was basically everywhere. The security software crowdstrike published an update that led to crashes on windows computers in enterprise environments all over the world. One could say they did strike a pretty large crowd that day.

[@johngreen7619]

Do I know who Robert Kennedy was? Absolutely. Do I know who RFK Jr is? I believe that the early bird might be involved ... Not the only American politician with worms in the head! I'm a little disappointed that you seem so happy about your ignorance of other countries. I've seen a lot of your content and I hoped for better.

[@maxxie84]

Sorry but I have to disagree with the end, yes Brits have a shit weather (I know I live there), but counter example: France has all the weather you can imagine, just in metropole you can get from shitty weather like Britain, to Hot weather like Italian / Spanish weather. We have all the landscapes possible and imaginable... and if you include overseas, we litterally have 12 time zones worth of islands and territories, in North America, South America, Caraibes, Indian Ocean, African coast (Comores), and Oceania and Pacific ocean. But we still travel a lot around in other countries...

[@alananderson5731]

Flights were grounded in the UK , and I do know who John Kennedy is. I also don't say like all the time and not loud.

[@georgetaylor3978]

It's actually worse than described when it comes to Americans who own passports to travel far and wide. In 1989 only 3 percent of Americans had passports. It rose dramatically in recent decades due to the new barriers for Americans traveling to Canada and Mexico after 9/11. The growing Hispanic population in the US also increased passport usage.

[@warrenturner397]

Outages in most banks shops and airlines etc. in Australia too

[@ChrisTaylor-dz6nk]

Its bad school 🏫 system

[@micade2518]

Nope: it's bad parents who give their kids tablets instead of books ...

[@mattsmith5421]

​@@micade2518Nope I haven't read a book since I left school I can't think of anything more boring than reading a book yet I'm interested in history geography geology astronomy all sorts. Empires great battles river systems weather literally most things interesting to people who study at university. I'll give anything a try apart from written English bugs and celebrities or modern day garbage trends.

[@kronop8884]

When you call the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada the World Series it explains a lot concerning the lack of understanding of the concept of country and continent. There are 23 countries in North America by the way

[@mattsmith5421]

That about the weather is nonsense British people are climatised to colder weather its our natural state we are used to it. More people dislike mad hot summer than cold winter and plenty of people go on holiday to Scandinavia were its even colder. Its about education and above that a desire to know. I could name a load of american cities before i started secondary school and i hadn't travelled there.

[@martinandersson9020]

I come from Scandinavia. I listen to you sometimes. I must say you are willing to listen to others. only that is big in itself. more than Europe's ❤️

[@uncle_matula]

yes we know Kennedy, the dumbest Kennedy ever :D

[@leno_o17]

Umm...I don't think Americans are "less intelligent" or Europeans are "more intelligent", so don't read it like that. But saying that "Americans don't travel so much" and that's why they can't show Asia on tge map is just... I'm from Poland, country like any other, our school system is average, not awful, not amazing. I could point to pretty much any country on the map and say what was the capital- when I was 14 and I'd never travelled abroad before. Just because the school demanded it. Obviously now I don't remember most of those African or Asian countries, because I never needed this knowledge. But you have to know basic stuff.

[@manmosu1866]

No but you know it’s not their fault it’s harder for them to travel, so they don’t know because they don’t need or can't.

[@leno_o17]

@@manmosu1866 but it's not the point. I know plenty of people who never left the country and still have great knowledge. Heck, many older people here never had a chance to travel, because we were literally separated from the world by Iron Curtain and also many people under communism were just too poor to go anywhere. Yet they learned geography and world history at school. It just shows that in the US noone cares if you're ignorant. Not the school system and not people themselves.

[@anouk6644]

@@manmosu1866You don’t need to travel to be able to name a few countries per continent. But something as simple as the difference between a country or a continent is to difficult for some. It’s pure disinterest and an inward fixation.

[@manmosu1866]

@@anouk6644 Sorry if the irony was not evident enough my bad

[@anouk6644]

@@manmosu1866 Oops, sorry!

[@DianeLittle-dd6ej]

Yeah was in uk 2 was world wide

[@gmdhargreaves]

@7:28 Travelling doesn’t make you understand the difference between a continent and a country girl! It’s basic education or furthering ones intellect

[@Deadwoods84]

As a wise man once said: stupidity is not solely an American trait but when Americans do it, damn they do it well 😁😂

[@manmosu1866]

This video shows more why Americans travel less than why Americans have a lack of geographic knowledge. Don’t think that Europeans necessarily travel a lot and that why they could know better in geography.

[@liyunfei]

your politics take sooooooo long

[@snroos1860]

Fun fact 1. For modern IQ tests, the raw score is transformed to a normal distribution with mean 100 and standard deviation 15. This results in approximately two-thirds of the population scoring between IQ 85 and IQ 115 and about 2 percent each above 130 and below 70. The term 'normal distribution' means, there is an equal amount of (American) people to appear to be stupid in KZbin videos as there is an amount that knows those answers but are intelligent enough to NOT show their faces on KZbin. Fun fact 2 The same is true for everyother country in the world. Fun fact 3 This doen't mean that person A from country A has to have the same raw score on the same IQ-test as person B from country B. This is because you are evaluated against your peer group. It is possible that persons from country B have ON AVERAGE a higher raw score than people from country A (Really a fun fact: A stands for America. But now I am really joking 🙂

[@lbergen001]

Thanks for your useful comment, but I think it's not worth the effort for many other

[@mitologijaiokultizam7608]

I know about RFK, and what about Biden, didn't he drop out, and now are Kamala vs Trump, and RFK ofc? Did I miss something? And I, based on my personal experience, think that Americans are far from dumb, on the contrary, I have quite a few very dear US friends, that are amazing and friendly people. I just think that you in the US have a different education, and are more focused on the US, and not necessarily so much on the rest of the world, and some "general global information", as much as we in the EU are. And in many cases, even media propaganda, which you are constantly exposed to, your whole lives doesn't help. Neither does the "McCartny red scare set of mind", in which at least four generations of Americans have grown up, and literally being brainwashed their entire lives to automatically see socialist countries and people as something bad, and to be scared of them. But those last things are not even people's fault. It's just a consequence of the US system, and foreign policy, since the Korean War until today, more then 60 years of propaganda. So you can't really blame the people for that. I'm only glad that nowadays in your and mine generations, there are more open minded and free thinking lovely people as yourselves, who want to learn about the world, more then ever before. Greetings from Serbia, southeast Europe.🙋🇷🇸❤️🇺🇸🥂🙏🌄

[@Bramfly]

Outage in the Netherlands as well

[@ChrisTaylor-dz6nk]

Kennedy 😅we learn that at school. Its called history 😅😅

[@warrenturner397]

You learn about Robert Kennedy in History!!!!!!!!

[@afp259]

You learned about JFK.... Robert is the guy with the Worm in his Brain 😂 He starved the worm to death....

[@heinz-jurgenscherer4953]

Kamala for president

[@Fincoolman68]

Kamala is finnish word and it means like horrible,terrible,awful,dreadful and other things like that. :O)

[@winterlinde5395]

@@Fincoolman68That’s why trump is so afraid of her name. No, wait. He doesn’t know any languages other than a bit English.

[@thomaslawley7444]

Vote Larry Krasner

[@beldin2987]

I still wait for the "WOKE card" .. like simple and easy : its WOKE to vote for a woman, its even double woke if she is not white .. and WOKE is these days maybe even worse that communism .. and so everybody rather votes for a racist fascist criminal only to not be WOKE ..

[@mattsmith5421]

He died a good few years ago.