These are the same type of people that lumbered America with a Potato for a president the future of America is doomed when these people start breeding.
we see but their is nothing we can do. we ask for changes in school but that is left to local school boards. these people should have failed school many times until they passed.
@@thomaschampion4142 part of the problem is people that blame schools while failing to consider subpar parenting throughout the different stages of the child’s development.
this is what happens when instead of math, physics, chemistry, philosophy, logic, you learn about feminism, oppresion, white supremacy and math is racist... Oh and pay gap.... god damn morons
A friend of mine, was in the United States as an exchange student. During the first week, they discussed the continents in the master's program. Unfortunately, no US American knew where Africa was and that it is a continent. In a master's program! I didn't want to believe his story. Now I believe it!
I just shared a comment with another Exchange Students perspective. A friend of mine studies economics at a University in Germany and when he went to the US, the exams were so easy to him, that he went there drunk and still passed with good grades. He said he don’t know if he would have passed the German Version of this subject at all. Let alone drunk
@@franzihe1888 I remember, the 90ies classmates that went abroad from Germany to the US for 1 year, they jumped two grades in the US and when they came back, they had to go down one grade.... Not a new situation.
@@larsradtke4097 On the other hand our kids got Ukrainian exchange students in their school. I am pretty much convinced that they could skip two grades in Germany. So all is relative. Germany is a good middle ground in terms of education, but the US for sure is pretty much at the end of the foodchain in that regard. At least in average, not overall. Finally there are for sure people in every City all over Germany that won't shine in an interview like that.
17:50 the epic occasion when Justin finally gets tired of 'Yes' and tries to correct the person answering incorrectly, and encounters the true awesome power of dumb
It terrifies me that these people are allowed to vote! 😅 Btw it’s not a quote from Churchill, he never said/wrote that. But I’m sure he probably thought it from time to time 😂
Even though the answer is in the question so it's obviously 10, she is also 20 years old. Even if the answer was arrived at by subtracting 10 from her age she still should have arrived at 10, and she somehow got 12? How the hell.
This isn’t only a completely failed school system. There is much more wrong with these people. Most of these questions don’t even need to be taught; if they had the slightest, the faintest, the most vague interest in the world around them they WOULD know!
This is a sure sign that they are no longer teaching how to think in school they're only indoctrinating these kids. I'm 70 years old and when I went to school they taught us to think about stuff and figure things out ourselves. They're not teaching that anymore they don't want people to be able to figure things out. The Dumber you are the easier you are to control it's that simple!
Ask the girl in the brown dress about the Kardashian family and beauty products and I'm sure she scores in the top 5 percent. Guess it all depends on how one defines 'world around them'.
@@gardenjoy5223 It’s a very limited world view they have. The USA IS their world. Most I’ve interacted with here, or in person, have limited knowledge of their own country and next to nothing about the rest of the world.
I’m a 71 year old woman and I feel like a rock star after watching your videos. I had no idea it was this bad out there. It’s almost seems unbelievable if it wasn’t so sad. 🇺🇸
Schools are just teaching ideology these days. Ask these kids about gender identity and I guarantee they know a lot about it. But what a country is? Nope, the schools don't consider that important.
In Australia i met an American who worked for Apple that thought when he was asked to transfer he could drive over. I also had a cashier ask the superviser to come over and show them how to use a calculator last week. The bill was $13.50 and they had been given $15 and needed to work out the change.
You probably could drive over to Australia. Just because you drive your car onto a boat/ferry it still means you drove to that place across the waters.
That's exactly the problem. They never learned to use their brain and do manual research because they can just ask Siri or something. I was born in 93 and enjoyed a great education (in Germany), my sister was born in 2003 and doesn't even read. And this girl is studying psychology to become a therapist. She's dumb as hell though. Being a therapist is definitely a position of power. That's so tragic.
@@oliviakrause3336 I am an American raised in America. I was born in 1990. I was taught how to read, count, and even do basic addition and subtraction when I was 5. This video is so disappointing.
If I was an American, I would be on the streets demanding from the government to change the education system. These guys cannot even THINK for themselves! This is tragic.
And these Gen x are the young voters and they don't even know a simple question......gosh....Scary if that's my child I will make sure they learn at the least basic .
In old fashioned Europe, if we would be caught like this...parents strangle us....they know absolutely nothing...I m sorry but why do they go to school ? Or don't they?
14:11 The answer _is_ 100. He _said_ 77 + 23, even though the person doing the subtitles wrote 77 + 33. 12:10 I heard her to say Manhattan. Confirmed when her later "states" were boroughs of New York city. I think she heard "five" and went for boroughs, as there are five. But even then she still made a category error, putting "New York" in the list along with some of its constituents.
@@Radbug11 Yeah, he probably bet that americans cannot be THAT stupid and sees his money flying away with every such answer.... No thought of laughing..... 🙂
Because of ignorancy to stupidity in US is a social norm and cultural setting. You might be well educated, but still have that behaviour as public face.
It's funny because my primary language is Spanish. I had to learn English, and I learned it so well that I have zero accent, and learned it by old fashion reading, tutoring, and practice. I went to the library, voraciously read books on everything, and anything. Learned to hand write in the second grade, learned to tell time on an analog clock in grammar school, taught myself to play guitar, etc.. [A large portion of] Kids & even young adults these days with every advantage in their hands, on their fingertips, every piece of info, everything they have these days at their disposal that I didn't have, still struggle with basic stuff. Granted their are also lots of very smart kids and young adults that are as smart as whips, the level of struggling with answering basic questions displayed in this video is just incredibly scary.
I know. I remember learning English from whatever material I could find (there was no internet), and now every opportunity is available, just take it! But they just don't need it. They are more interested in Kardashians I guess.
there pepople walk around with blinders on. in there own little bubble, where they are the center of the universe, there phone is there outlet to everything in life, and they have a memory of a gold fish.
I lived in Spain for a while in 1985. When I came back, friends and family asked me a bunch of questions. Some of them had no clue that Spain is in Western Europe, no clue that Spaniards DO NOT eat Mexican food as a regular part of their diet, and that Spain borders France.
Now Spain with the actual goverment (and opposition) it's becoming equal as USA in education. Im still studing and my classmates doesn't know where is our country in the world. They doesn't know anything that all adults needs to know to live.
As exemplified by the media and most US citizens labeling as Hhhhhhispanic any nonwhite person who is not obviously Black or Asian,and insisting there are no white people from Mexico.
¿Cómo cojones no van a saber situar a España en un mapa? Te compro que cada vez la educación es peor pero nunca he conocido a nadie que no sepa dónde está España.
I had this exact thing happening to me back in 1996 when visiting California (I'm Norwegian) on business. I'm standing on a corner eating when a guy comes up to me and asks "sorry, do you have the time?". Since I had my mouth full I hold up my wrist - where my analog wrist watch is. He replies "Sorry, Sir, I do not know how to read that". I had to chew up and swallow and tell him the time...
@@dimiathan I'm ashamed to admit that,but I was born in 1988 and I *never* learned how to read an analog clock. I was *SO GRATEFUL* when digital clocks were invented!!
Well, just because you piqued my curiosity with your comment, here we go. gas, liquid, solid and plasma (the 4 general states of matter) to this can be added states specific to certain elements, the best known being the superconducting state
I read a discussion where an American who was coming to Europe asked what kind of alphabet and numbering system is used here. The Latin letters and Arabic numbers answered him. The guy was desperate thinking he had to learn to count in Arabic and a new alphabet.
I am an American and have been to Europe many times... I also married a British woman... I can tell you this current generation of US kids are the DUMBEST people on Earth. What's more distressing is we spend more per student than any other country.... I am labeled a raaacist for pushing for a basic civics test for the right to vote and own a firearm.... Welcome to the fall of the new Rome, brought to you by the Democratic / Communist Party of America..... FJB...
I'm a dual national who spent some of my childhood in the US but most of it as an expat in Europe. When I took the university exam for a language and translation school in my country, I was given the subjects aimed at americans due to an administrative mixup. Now, for the most part, this didn't change much for me. However, there was a General Knowledge component to the exam where you had to answer 5 to 10 questions and the difference between the American oriented test and the European one was shocking. I had prepared with practice exams aimed at people educated in this European country, so the questions I prepared were along the lines of "What was the Age of Enlightenment and name 3 influential people from that time.", "What were the last 3 countries to join the European Union?", "What was the Treaty of Versailles and when was it signed?", etc. When I saw the questions aimed at americans I thought it was a joke. The questions included: - "Name three American states that start with the letter A." - "What country has a maple leaf on its flag?" - "Where are the winter olympics currently being held?" - "What does the acronym NATO stand for?" Easiest test of my life xD I was a little insulted even, but I'm starting to realize that they may have been spot on with those questions.
If you diisagree and tell them "No,the answer is wrong." You have to explain why. Would you enjoy trying to explain anything to these uneducated louts?
At least this video took place on the street or in a mall. These videos are often conducted on university campuses and the results are just as bad or worse.
@@judytelles3518 Oh! What are these "other ways"? There used to be a certain level of general knowledge that needed to be achieved by the end of grade 6. When your still lacking that knowledge at college age, American has a serious problem.
@@chrisgraham2904 School wrecked Shakespeare for me but I took it up after I left school and even I can say that I am only familiar with 4 of his plays, I am more interested in learning to speak French now after school age and learning about history by reading and geography by travelling. For me you dont learn everything in school. You should learn throughout your life from reading, experiences, interests and from others. I wasnt ready or open to learning when I was in school. My school was a battle ground. Grade 6 is a 10 year old. They certainly dont know the continents. But have time to learn and to travel. Maths comes with every day usage. I find that if you arent using a knowledge you lose it or dont have it but if you need it you will learn it.
You realise murica IS its people, right? They do this, day in day out, by raising their children to be entitled imbeciles with literally not the sense to come in out of the rain. "Protecting" them from the word 'no', screaming at teachers instead of offspring, driving everywhere, and infecting the young with greed, hypercompetitiveness, anti-intellectuallism and worst of all : entitlement.
How else do the nutters get the population to vote for them? Keeping your population ignorant is a powerful strategy in Russia, China, N Korea and the USA. The main thing to note is that the ignorance is pretty universal in the USA while some of the more effective methods of enforcing ignorance simply apply it to general international news to enable their economic systems to continue.
@@alangaughran I went to China Oct 2019 as a tourist, all Chinese parents are very aware of the importance of education and having a job. I saw school children at historic sites with their teachers and school groups at no time were they in shopping centres or streets or on trains during school times. I have been to Russia in the 80's my coach tour guide was a university graduate. My young Russian neighbour is a university Botanist graduate, he works as a landscape gardener, full time. I dont know any N.Koreans but they will be very education oriented. I have been to Cuba and the taxi drivers were university graduates as was the young mother we gave a lift. You dont have to have a degree to be smart and we all have other talents to give like kindness, generosity, joy. I dont understand your comment about enforcing ignorance by news.
The girl naming the 5 states is clearly a native New Yorker because she gave the interviewer the 5 buroughs of New York which are Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, Manhattan and Staten Island.
Maybe she thought (though I do not think so) that the question was 'When was the US geographically formed?', that would at least get her into the BC range.
I'm an Australian. I visited California in the late 70's. Most people did not know Australia existed or where it was located. People were surprised I spoke English. Many thought I was from Austria. My European friends (Holland, Germany, Switzerland, England) had a broad knowledge of my homeland. It's pretty hard to miss a country of 3 million square miles on a Global map.
Dementia is a time shifter. Your mother went back to her schooldays in her mind. The thing thats nice is, many girls born when she was born werent allowed to go to school so its nice that she did.
The guy who asked the questions is a genius. He managed to find all these people who have never been to school or college. Even here in the UK I'm amazed how many young people have no knowledge of history or geography. What on earth are they teaching kids these days.
It starts in Kindergarten. Kids arrive at age 5 and are developmentally about 3. It's impossible to make up that difference in a school year. And every year after that the kid is expected to learn ever increasing quantities of information. To compound the problem, teacher salaries haven't kept up with the cost of living so people who would've been excellent teachers go into other fields where they are paid more and have a lighter workload.
I find the Panama Canal question interesting because even though the canal was physically always located in the country of Panama, it used to be part of USA territory before it was eventually reincorporated into Panama. As an aside, because of regional geography, to travel from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean you must pass through the Panama Canal going east to west.
I would love to ask their teachers the same questions. Did these people finish any kind of school? If yes, who gave them their first school certificate? Once you have such a big lack of knowledge, you complicate every simple question in your head, and you can`t think logically. That`s so sad. But the worst tragedy is that these people are allowed to vote.
@@corners23251 It's not about the teachers. It's about students and their parents. Kids don't want to study and teachers have no power over them. So much time goes to disciplining kids. If only the schools were allowed to be stricter...
It is kind of starting to make sense why college is so expensive in US: it must take lots of resources to bring this level of knowledge to the level of bachelor's degree... :)
And then realize in your average school we dont even learn the complicated math like algi. In europe and i think they try pushing that down americas throats.
@@rasenche4562 It certainly may be so … I had to learn it. However I must I don’t remember much… We even some geology in geography lessons. I don’t remember a thing..Admittedly it was hundert years ago. My children had half of it at school. Yet they could answer all questions here. Needless to add that most questions provided answers anyway. B/b I met people who can’t read maps ! But let us keep it among us :))
I am from the UK and my 10 year old grandson could answer these questions easily. Your country is is trouble if the younger generation cannot answer these easy questions. Not one of them could get a job even in a burger bar because they have to be able to count money and how many of each item are required which obviously is beyond them.
@Kate Moore Not all but I bet they would answer most of them, most of these questions are very basic that regardless of country we are from, we should really know them. It was surprising how so many were struggling with them and that should send off alarm bells about the future generation depending on the percentage of the young that are educated like this. I mean, don't get me wrong, there are clueless people all over the world but I've never seen it as bad as what we see it in the US unless we're going to poorer countries where many of the people have not been educated at all.
@Kate Moore they would , most of those people were early twenties,or teens , I’m sure the kids in the uk would know most questions by that age . ( hopefully) lol
They don't have to count money... people pay with cards and the register handles that without any help. I think it's very rare that someone with cash walks in.
A friend of mine was responsible for the acknowledgement of students from abroad to a German university. He always said that students from the US where at the same level as those of a West African third wirld country. I couldn’t believe it. Until now.
I work for a community college in the US. We have a lot of students from West Africa. Most of them are better educated than our domestic students. We're open enrollment meaning we take anyone regardless of GPA or test scores and offer "learning support" courses, basically mandatory tutoring, to help low scoring students complete their college level English and Math courses. About 80% of our domestic students are required to take at least one of these support classes based on their test placement. Conversely, it's very rare that one of our immigrant students needs them at all if they come from a country where English is their 1st language.
As an Englishman AND a carpenter, I learned to use imperial (feet and inches) while on site being taught by the old guys, and learned metric when I was at college. So now I have the advantage of knowing both whenever it comes up. It's like being bilingual.
In Aus we still use cm, inch, metre, feet and mm. Just depends on what age you are. It took me a long time but I managed the changes and can use all of them now.
I suppose it depends upon your age, but nowadays everyone should know that as basic, what is a foot and what is a metre, how can people function without knowing basic measurements? Does that mean they don't even know what height they are?
But knowing both, doesnt imperial looks like a dumbass system? Its more like a its around this size guess system. 3/8s of an inch? So I picture an inch in my head dived that by 8 x 3. Or somewhere close to a little bit less than half an inch. If u say so much mm its clear to anyone.
@@superliegebeest544 yes, metric makes complete sense, simply because it's just like working in decimal, and imperial is gibberish to anyone who can't read it.......however, if I am just measuring for myself, I will use the nearest big line, whether it is the 5/10mm line or the 1/4 - 1/2 - 7/8 line....it's just easier for me than trying to find 1m573.5mm, for example.
"What is a country?" I taught a course at the local college, and had some students who didn't know what the word "political" meant. I used the word melancholy, and there was this blank look from the class. I asked if they knew what the word meant, and maybe a third did. I taught high school a little and the 11th graders were reading at a 4th grade level, or what USED to be a fourth grade level. This is not surprising since the kids don't do ANY homework. Sure, you could assign it, but no one would actually do it. The parents didn't care, and the administrators were salaried bureaucrats who were phoning it in. We're talking Idiocracy here--or something out of an Orwell novel.
“What is a country?” is a legitimate question when talking about Britain, though. Is England a country? (Answer: It is). If it is, is the UK a country? (Answer: Define what a country is)
So the students were not learning because their daily lessons were not being reinforced in the home? Parents were not encouraging or assisting their children to do /how to do their lessons? --and the administrators simply did not care about the performance of their students?.... Can you think of any solution to this /these problems? Where do we start? Do we start in the home or do we begin with the classroom? (I suspect that eliminating or reducing the distractions of the internet, social media and video games would be a great help.)
@@jeff-hopkins You're right about the internet. The high school gave all the kids laptops connected to Wi-Fi, so they were continually playing games or looking at ads during class. And as for the kids' parents--WHAT PARENTS? Two of my students were cousins, living together, with one parent between the two of them. Another dropped out because she had to drive her alcoholic mother to the hospital where HER alcoholic mother was, since her own driver's license had been suspended. I found out that another one of my students was living in a homeless shelter, though his own mother was lying to us about it. In this state over half of all children are born out of wedlock. This is not Leave It to Beaver. It's not even Married with Children. The kids in my classes had been so brain-damaged by the internet that they did not have enough concentration to even watch a movie, much less read a book.
@@steveneardley7541 Assigned reading in 6th grade was Dicken's "Tale of Two Cities:" and we skimmed over some Shakespeare. "Two Cities" was relatable at that time because the kids and I used to go racing home from school each afternoon to watch Luke and Laura from the General Hospital soap opera, who were sort of emulating the storyline of the classic novel. We also read Orwell's 1984, in '84! 🙂 I'm afraid that I do not recall much else assigned reading due to a couple head injuries though.... But I do remember reading Catcher in the Rye while laying in a hospital bed after I woke from a coma one summer. --I finished the previous school year in the hospital so that I could graduate with my classmates.
@@King-cc8uz This lack of knowledge is astonishing,even not being able to read a clock face blows me away,but you are right,it's best not to argue with these people.
@@andrewmccormack4295 Not being able to read a clock is actually not that surprising, they hardly used or saw since they were born. That's rather a generational evolution than real ignorance.
Responding with yes to a really bad answer is a bad choice. Also suggesting them to guess is bad choice, since for those questions you need to think not to guess. Demoralising videos
I have been watching a few of these videos and had to ask my children and was glad that they could answer these questions! But watching these , make me want to cry !
It would be interesting to see what sort of representation those in the USoA would have if the voters had to pass the same tests as immigrants do to gain citizenship. It would be even more interesting to see what sort of representation if the politicians had to pass the same immigration tests.
In order to block them from voting, a POC had to pass a test in order to register to vote. The test was so hard, 99% of whites couldn’t pass it, either. But only blacks had to take it.
Let's go even better. We should give that American History test to all members who hold govt offices from the Presidency all the way down to town alderman (with emphasis on congress members). They should have to take the history test, a test on the Constitution and one on the Bill of Rights. Every govt employee elected or appointed should have to pass these tests. Would that make too much sense? We should also make police officers take and pass a test on the bill of rights, disability (mental health) sensitivity, etc.
As a German I have problems with one of these questions too ... how many inches are in two feet ... I generally think, that the use of metres and centimetres is much easier than inch and foot. But after watching the video, I even doubt that these guys know how many centimetres are in two metres.
I knew this despite being Czech, because I often encounter American description of bodily height, like 5'6", and I know it only goes to eleven before it becomes another foot. But I wouldn't be able to tell you off the bat just how long 24 inches is in centimetres 😅 Go metric 😁
I love education in Germany. There are a lot of bad educated people in Germany too, but I think IT would bei harder to find people who mess up that hard. Free education and to know your education is not connected to your parents income is really a great thing. Obviously money can provide a better education, but the "normal" is alright. But I have a question: How do these people survive? And what happend all the time these kids sat on a bench at school? Waiting for the end of the day?
You couldn't even buy drugs with the level of maths that these people have. I wonder if they could answer " how many 8- balls of coke in a kilo"? Probably! It's a survival strategy! The curriculum should be framed in reality!
@@bloozee maybe that's the reason they don't use cash 🤔 they would pay random amounts of money 🤔 I think a dealer could trick everyone "price ist 20, you gave 50, so you get the drugs and 10 Dollars back." 😝
"to know your education is not connected to your parents income" Sadly it is. This is a huge problem in germany. Allthough education is mostly free parents chose the education level they have for their kids. Education equals income. So parent with low income often are parents with low education and they chose a low educational level for their kids.
@@Patrik6920 maybe it had to do with the fact that our scholar system was either catholic or military supervised so we had to learn or else we were punished or laughed at for being “dumb and useless”: no one wants to be labeled like that.
@@ninachiflada ..probably evoled a bit since..and evolving... US on the other hand taken the fast track to dumb down the whole education system... we can all see the effects...but it will get worser and worser if it continues... its a downhill spiral... even now thers Teachers and even Professors that lack so much... and thay are supposed to teach things thay dont understand...to childeren that dont care.. while at it add in some laughter and shaming of kids with learning disabilities... a perfect coctail of creating a society with high rates of crimes, an excessive ammount of poor and starving ppl, unhealthy everything... while at it why not prep the food with compounds thats banned wourld wide that agrevates cancers, nerological disorders and such...
You are writing in fluent English. Clearly your system is really good. How many Americans (non-Latinos) would be able to respond to your comment in perfect spanish?
Funnily enough the number of moons is actually quite contested. There’s many episodes of a panel show here in the uk called qi where they mention the updates over the years of what scientists believe
I swear I was going mad for a second. I was listening to the video and at 14:08 I thought "Oh easy, that's 100.", then I hear Ryan go into his Spiel about it obviously not being a hundred. I really needed to go back and realise that the video says 77 + 33 while he says 77 + 23. I swear to god I thought I suddenly had lost the ability to do math for a second.
Yes - I didn't even get to "Ryan's Spiel" because I was sure the questioner said "23" and that's what the closed captions said as well, but the number on-screen in the vid was 33. Hd to go back and check.
You know, I think it is not just the USA. I once saw a Jamy Oliver cooking show, where he was teaching teenagers how to cook. One girl did not know why the water was producing those little bubbles. I mean seriously,... she HAD NO IDEA what cooking water was.
@@kayelle8005 TBH, that’s not a common or garden item in the UK shopping basket either. Don’t think I’d have distinguished it from a mango externally. (Just Googled the image now and can see the difference 😂😂😂) 🤷🏾♂️🇬🇧
its like they are not able to understand the questions. like they are just not used to thinking that way. like humans who just survived for 20+ years but got no input. like people who grew up in isolation or something. like nobody talked to them when they were children. you cannot just put them in a school and expect them to learn things like "normal" kids. they need to be picked up where they actually are. they need someone to play toddler games with them and take them seriously and go from there. forreal.
The WHO warned that the average IQ was dropping 7 points per generation since the 1970's. A generation is 20 years, 50 years have passed since 1970, so today's average is 82.5. It's a good thing for these people that the Motor Vehicle Department doesn't test IQ, because you need an IQ of 86 or higher to hold a driver's license. An IQ of 82 means you're mentally disabled!
@@carlinetorweihe4246 The problem is that education isn't in the hands of the educators. It's in the hands of the bean-counters, who treat education as a cost. In so doing, they're ignoring quality (of textbooks, for example) and going with the cheapest crap available. Back in the 70's renowned physicist Richard Feyman was briefly in charge of adjudicating textbooks. He wrote that his recommendations were always ignored in favour of cheap, useless junk. Read Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman for plenty of examples. It's available as a free pdf.
I'm from Europe, not to brag, but this is elementary school knowledge, and in my country, probably all of Europe It's not embarrassing, it's catastrophic I apologize for the inconvenience
We had limited toys growing up but we played chess and games such as choosing a letter and than recording countries, capital cities, rivers, mountains etc. and for each answer getting points. If somebody else had the same answer their points were halved and if someone didn't know answers didn't get any points. The winner was the one with most of the points. That was before we started school.
Yes, I also learnt that the Queen of England is Queen of Canada. And I was also puzzled by the question "what is a country" when referring to the UK - specially as a football fan.
The American education system is a sham. I was a middle school librarian (6th-8th grade) and I had several teachers tell me that their students were reading at second and third grade levels. These kids are advancing grades without knowing how to read or write properly.
@@samsonian9468 I’m a behavior therapist and in the schools that I have worked in most of the kids are far below grade level. They also only have math and reading. They don’t do history, science or spelling. It’s shocking. The kids don’t have any homework and they barely do any class work. It’s a joke. When I was in school we have homework every night. We worked all day in class. If you didn’t perform you got held back.
It’s not just the US where this excruciating embarrassment occurs,it happens here too (UK). This world is rapidly turning to shit,any passing aliens would take one look at us and say ‘’fuck that,let’s get the fuck out of here”
Haven't seen that here in Finland yet, like sure there's idiots everywhere, but this level of ignorance is really hard to find here. Honestly not sure if it's just few or many countries going to shit, or did the apple just not fall far from the tree?
The idea that it is legal for these people to own a gun is terrifying!
Or to vote. Or drive.
@@BobWitlox or to reproduce
Totally, totally agree with what you just said. What is scary is these kids are the future of the USA? 😮
The fact that they think they are the greatest country in the world is terrifying
Ain't that the truth that is so sad wow this seriously gob smacked me
As an incoming 8th grader, this makes me feel like I can work for NASA.
Definitely, little man! The USA has drown in idiocracy.
@@MariaAlessandraLlSilva Yeah.
@@Rhino_D1 I'm rooting for you to be part of the change, champ! Good luck :)
Study, go to college and you will own these people!
@@anamariaguadayol2335you sure about the college ? In the US ? Maybe painting the satellites and rockets in Rainbow
The idea that it is legal for these people to VOTE is terrifying!
There should be an test to allow you to be a full citizen of the country.
These are the same type of people that lumbered America with a Potato for a president the future of America is doomed when these people start breeding.
They're not voting
@@CinCee- that`s why I wrote "the idea"
@@MrJueKa Dont even worry your little skull w/ such "ideas"
I'm not American and this is truly beyond any level of sadness. How can you live your life and not see what is going around you
The US is so big that 90% of the people do not know geography outside their own state, let alone outside the US.
we see but their is nothing we can do. we ask for changes in school but that is left to local school boards. these people should have failed school many times until they passed.
@@thomaschampion4142 part of the problem is people that blame schools while failing to consider subpar parenting throughout the different stages of the child’s development.
This is what happens when all the schools are made for the sub 80iq crowd
this is what happens when instead of math, physics, chemistry, philosophy, logic, you learn about feminism, oppresion, white supremacy and math is racist... Oh and pay gap.... god damn morons
And these people are your future voters and leaders! Congratulations America.
That’s why people like Trump can get elected, 😮
Or like Biden!
@@keithfallon-norris9570 Lost
Frightening!🥺
@@keithfallon-norris9570Who then progresses to make the US perform better than every other president over the last 50 years.
A friend of mine, was in the United States as an exchange student. During the first week, they discussed the continents in the master's program. Unfortunately, no US American knew where Africa was and that it is a continent.
In a master's program!
I didn't want to believe his story. Now I believe it!
Wow!
How did they get in to the master program at all? Anyone with money gets in or?
@@mari97216 i don't know... but it wasn't only one person that didn't know where africa is...
I just shared a comment with another Exchange Students perspective. A friend of mine studies economics at a University in Germany and when he went to the US, the exams were so easy to him, that he went there drunk and still passed with good grades. He said he don’t know if he would have passed the German Version of this subject at all. Let alone drunk
@@franzihe1888 I remember, the 90ies classmates that went abroad from Germany to the US for 1 year, they jumped two grades in the US and when they came back, they had to go down one grade.... Not a new situation.
@@larsradtke4097 On the other hand our kids got Ukrainian exchange students in their school. I am pretty much convinced that they could skip two grades in Germany. So all is relative. Germany is a good middle ground in terms of education, but the US for sure is pretty much at the end of the foodchain in that regard. At least in average, not overall. Finally there are for sure people in every City all over Germany that won't shine in an interview like that.
17:50 the epic occasion when Justin finally gets tired of 'Yes' and tries to correct the person answering incorrectly, and encounters the true awesome power of dumb
😂
The fact that "I don't know" is the best answer is hilarious.
The very idea that some of these people are allowed to vote and own guns is absolutely terrifying!
and have and raise children as well
Many Americans don't vote, voting there isn't compulsory.
It's a blue states
Vote, yes, have guns, no.
@@annep.1905 women and liberals should never have to vote or own nasty guns that's a real man's job
"The strongest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter."
/Winston Churchill/
It terrifies me that these people are allowed to vote! 😅
Btw it’s not a quote from Churchill, he never said/wrote that. But I’m sure he probably thought it from time to time 😂
Not among the world's most open minded individuals.
@@HaurakiVet I’m sure you’d be surprised. Also he never said this quote.
Whether Churchill said it or not, it's just so true.
@@kenUK762 I agree 😁
My favorite part has to be the guy saying "Yes" to every comically wrong answer.
And the one time he didn't, at the end, she challenged him... That's aggressive ignorance right there!
"If you were born 10 years ago how old would you be today?"
"I'd be like 12."
That's with tax, of course.
Even though the answer is in the question so it's obviously 10, she is also 20 years old. Even if the answer was arrived at by subtracting 10 from her age she still should have arrived at 10, and she somehow got 12? How the hell.
😢😮
This isn’t only a completely failed school system.
There is much more wrong with these people.
Most of these questions don’t even need to be taught; if they had the slightest, the faintest, the most vague interest in the world around them they WOULD know!
This is a sure sign that they are no longer teaching how to think in school they're only indoctrinating these kids. I'm 70 years old and when I went to school they taught us to think about stuff and figure things out ourselves. They're not teaching that anymore they don't want people to be able to figure things out. The Dumber you are the easier you are to control it's that simple!
Agree.
It almost appears to be planned to make American kids so dumb. The dumber they grow up to be the easier to conquer them as slaves.
Ask the girl in the brown dress about the Kardashian family and beauty products and I'm sure she scores in the top 5 percent. Guess it all depends on how one defines 'world around them'.
@@gardenjoy5223 It’s a very limited world view they have. The USA IS their world. Most I’ve interacted with here, or in person, have limited knowledge of their own country and next to nothing about the rest of the world.
"Get your hand out of your pants - it's time to represent America!" A sentence I never thought I'd hear, but I love that I did!
He was moving his single clock dial trying to work out the question.
That guy had Al Bundy internalized.
@@CotopaxiAH1968 😆🤫
That kid with his hand in his pants does represent America.
🤣
This is supposed to be the generation that solves the climate crisis.
We’re doomed
Well I mean, the extinction of the human race that these folks will lead us to will solve the climate crisis as a by-product.
Imagine people like that have control over nuclear weapons (maybe one of them becomes president anytime), WE ALL are doomed. Cheers from Germany.
No, that generation was us. But yes, we're doomed.
Ryan, could Justin perhaps ask the same questions to random teachers at a school? The answers might just be mind blowing.😅
Ask the parents.
Am I the only one that noticed that at 14:08 he says" 77+TWENTY three" yet the text says 77+33?
I’m a 71 year old woman and I feel like a rock star after watching your videos. I had no idea it was this bad out there. It’s almost seems unbelievable if it wasn’t so sad. 🇺🇸
Schools are just teaching ideology these days. Ask these kids about gender identity and I guarantee they know a lot about it. But what a country is? Nope, the schools don't consider that important.
Same age as you. We had to take a whole year of Geography in Jr High School! This is soooooo sad to watch! Are their parents just like this?
Imagine, these big corporations won’t hire elderly people, except for Walmart type jobs
Make a test ur grandchildren for basic knowledge, if they also like this, u better talk serious with ur children about ur grandchild education.
They long know, what a "quarter to"
.is..2/3 past the hour, is beginning of next
7:40= 20 to 8
Say no to digital clocks 🤣
Most Aussie kindergarteners would be embarrassed if they didn’t know the answer to these questions❤️✨
Even Aussies would know the American questions like "How many states in the USA?" and "What two countries are neighbours to the USA"?".
Im Australian....I doubt any Australian child would get any of these questions wrong. That is scary.
@@freecountry3544 Hmm a lot of Aussies may not know when the US was formed. Not much reason to remember that date.
Most US kindergartners would be embarrassed to. Fortunately these are high school graduates!!
@@VestigialHead Except, there is. It has a direct correlation to the establishment of a colony in this country.
In Australia i met an American who worked for Apple that thought when he was asked to transfer he could drive over.
I also had a cashier ask the superviser to come over and show them how to use a calculator last week. The bill was $13.50 and they had been given $15 and needed to work out the change.
You probably could drive over to Australia. Just because you drive your car onto a boat/ferry it still means you drove to that place across the waters.
😅@@chrisspere4836 No, the car is being transported by the ship, you're not driving it.
You can find similar videos where people ask such questions everywhere. And everwhere you can find people who can't answer them.
Even in germany 🙂
And from Generations past, too. Of course the videos only show the jarringly wrong answers. Correct answers aren't as entertaining.
What makes me sad is that they are happy to be ignorant at a time when it’s never been easier to find information about stuff. 😢
Exactly what I was thinking. A wealth of knowledge at their fingertips yet they seem to know significantly less than the bare basics
Tbf the guy who said 2:45 is fair, as there are clocks that only clock up when at a full number, so if the hour was pointed at two it would be 2:45
That's exactly the problem. They never learned to use their brain and do manual research because they can just ask Siri or something.
I was born in 93 and enjoyed a great education (in Germany), my sister was born in 2003 and doesn't even read. And this girl is studying psychology to become a therapist. She's dumb as hell though. Being a therapist is definitely a position of power. That's so tragic.
@@oliviakrause3336 I am an American raised in America. I was born in 1990. I was taught how to read, count, and even do basic addition and subtraction when I was 5. This video is so disappointing.
The one problem with being stupid Lesley, is that they don`t know that they are stupid - because they are stupid !
If I was an American, I would be on the streets demanding from the government to change the education system. These guys cannot even THINK for themselves! This is tragic.
And these Gen x are the young voters and they don't even know a simple question......gosh....Scary if that's my child I will make sure they learn at the least basic .
@@tesscarry They're Gen Z, Gen X is my dad lol.
But ask them anything about celebrities and they will be spot on. So sad.
They can't fix it if they don't know what's wrong with it. Once upon a time a man landed on the moon, but that was once upon a time.
In old fashioned Europe, if we would be caught like this...parents strangle us....they know absolutely nothing...I m sorry but why do they go to school ? Or don't they?
14:11 The answer _is_ 100. He _said_ 77 + 23, even though the person doing the subtitles wrote 77 + 33.
12:10 I heard her to say Manhattan. Confirmed when her later "states" were boroughs of New York city. I think she heard "five" and went for boroughs, as there are five. But even then she still made a category error, putting "New York" in the list along with some of its constituents.
Finally someone who pays attention...
I also thought I heard 23! Glad I'm not losing it
That's what I came on here to say. I guess I'm about 8 months too late.
This has been going on for decades, Jay Leno used to do segments like this way back in the 90’s.
Seriously how can the guys asking the questions keep a straight face? I would be rolling on the floor howling with laughter
Sad true: he heard it 1000s times so it is not funny for him at all.
@@Radbug11 Yeah, he probably bet that americans cannot be THAT stupid and sees his money flying away with every such answer.... No thought of laughing..... 🙂
Its not funny, its sad to be honest
Because of ignorancy to stupidity in US is a social norm and cultural setting.
You might be well educated, but still have that behaviour as public face.
Inmost of his videos he just says "Yes" to their answers, at least he tried to challenge one of them here.
Ryan, your mission if you choose to accept it: make sure your children don't end up like these people 🤣
send them to Europe...!
My children always had a map of the world on their bedroom walls and we used to play games finding countries and planning trips.
That is why it is mission impossible.
@@blotski Really GREAT idea.
He'd need to migrate to Australia
It's funny because my primary language is Spanish. I had to learn English, and I learned it so well that I have zero accent, and learned it by old fashion reading, tutoring, and practice.
I went to the library, voraciously read books on everything, and anything. Learned to hand write in the second grade, learned to tell time on an analog clock in grammar school, taught myself to play guitar, etc..
[A large portion of] Kids & even young adults these days with every advantage in their hands, on their fingertips, every piece of info, everything they have these days at their disposal that I didn't have, still struggle with basic stuff.
Granted their are also lots of very smart kids and young adults that are as smart as whips, the level of struggling with answering basic questions displayed in this video is just incredibly scary.
I know. I remember learning English from whatever material I could find (there was no internet), and now every opportunity is available, just take it! But they just don't need it. They are more interested in Kardashians I guess.
No such thing as zero accent
there pepople walk around with blinders on. in there own little bubble, where they are the center of the universe, there phone is there outlet to everything in life, and they have a memory of a gold fish.
I lived in Spain for a while in 1985. When I came back, friends and family asked me a bunch of questions. Some of them had no clue that Spain is in Western Europe, no clue that Spaniards DO NOT eat Mexican food as a regular part of their diet, and that Spain borders France.
Now Spain with the actual goverment (and opposition) it's becoming equal as USA in education. Im still studing and my classmates doesn't know where is our country in the world. They doesn't know anything that all adults needs to know to live.
@@ademile_0973 qué lástima
As exemplified by the media and most US citizens labeling as Hhhhhhispanic any nonwhite person who is not obviously Black or Asian,and insisting there are no white people from Mexico.
¿Cómo cojones no van a saber situar a España en un mapa? Te compro que cada vez la educación es peor pero nunca he conocido a nadie que no sepa dónde está España.
@@sandrasc6580 yo tampoco entiendo No están enseñando geografía
I had this exact thing happening to me back in 1996 when visiting California (I'm Norwegian) on business. I'm standing on a corner eating when a guy comes up to me and asks "sorry, do you have the time?".
Since I had my mouth full I hold up my wrist - where my analog wrist watch is.
He replies "Sorry, Sir, I do not know how to read that".
I had to chew up and swallow and tell him the time...
It is even more weird considering that back in 1996, analog clocks were the norm.
@@dimiathan Exactly what I was thinking
Jesus…💀
@@dimiathan I'm ashamed to admit that,but I was born in 1988 and I *never* learned how to read an analog clock. I was *SO GRATEFUL* when digital clocks were invented!!
French here, had the same thing happen to me in Tennesse with a friend of mine.
I love how this guy agrees with them all. He tells himself, "No need to argue with idiots or the radio." And he's right!
"Can you name 5 states?"
I had a 0.000000000001% chance hope she would go "Solid, liquid, ..." lol
Well, just because you piqued my curiosity with your comment, here we go.
gas, liquid, solid and plasma (the 4 general states of matter)
to this can be added states specific to certain elements, the best known being the superconducting state
@@MrAlexblabla Thank you chatgpt 🤣
You were completely correct when you stated, "this is going to be painful". OMG .
I read a discussion where an American who was coming to Europe asked what kind of alphabet and numbering system is used here.
The Latin letters and Arabic numbers answered him. The guy was desperate thinking he had to learn to count in Arabic and a new alphabet.
Maybe later he distorted the information (Latin numbers and Arabic letters), and at least learned something new.
I am an American and have been to Europe many times... I also married a British woman... I can tell you this current generation of US kids are the DUMBEST people on Earth. What's more distressing is we spend more per student than any other country.... I am labeled a raaacist for pushing for a basic civics test for the right to vote and own a firearm.... Welcome to the fall of the new Rome, brought to you by the Democratic / Communist Party of America..... FJB...
Imagine his reaction if he were to find out that Europe also uses the Greek and Cyrillic alphabet. 😄
I'm a dual national who spent some of my childhood in the US but most of it as an expat in Europe. When I took the university exam for a language and translation school in my country, I was given the subjects aimed at americans due to an administrative mixup. Now, for the most part, this didn't change much for me. However, there was a General Knowledge component to the exam where you had to answer 5 to 10 questions and the difference between the American oriented test and the European one was shocking.
I had prepared with practice exams aimed at people educated in this European country, so the questions I prepared were along the lines of "What was the Age of Enlightenment and name 3 influential people from that time.", "What were the last 3 countries to join the European Union?", "What was the Treaty of Versailles and when was it signed?", etc.
When I saw the questions aimed at americans I thought it was a joke. The questions included:
- "Name three American states that start with the letter A."
- "What country has a maple leaf on its flag?"
- "Where are the winter olympics currently being held?"
- "What does the acronym NATO stand for?"
Easiest test of my life xD I was a little insulted even, but I'm starting to realize that they may have been spot on with those questions.
I'm from the UK 🇬🇧 I'm beginning to think we let you win. 😂😂
The way the guy keeps saying yes with every wrong answer is hilarious 😂
The guy's t-shirt that says : always give up 😅😅😅
If you diisagree and tell them "No,the answer is wrong." You have to explain why. Would you enjoy trying to explain anything to these uneducated louts?
This is astounding!! I knew our schools were lacking, but this is deplorable.
Our schools educated me. I think it’s more about the”student”, social promotion and participation trophies..
At least this video took place on the street or in a mall. These videos are often conducted on university campuses and the results are just as bad or worse.
They are bright in other ways and they can learn these facts at other times.
@@judytelles3518 Oh! What are these "other ways"? There used to be a certain level of general knowledge that needed to be achieved by the end of grade 6. When your still lacking that knowledge at college age, American has a serious problem.
@@chrisgraham2904 School wrecked Shakespeare for me but I took it up after I left school and even I can say that I am only familiar with 4 of his plays, I am more interested in learning to speak French now after school age and learning about history by reading and geography by travelling. For me you dont learn everything in school. You should learn throughout your life from reading, experiences, interests and from others. I wasnt ready or open to learning when I was in school. My school was a battle ground. Grade 6 is a 10 year old. They certainly dont know the continents. But have time to learn and to travel. Maths comes with every day usage. I find that if you arent using a knowledge you lose it or dont have it but if you need it you will learn it.
Can you imagine how frustrating it would be to be their teachers?
Dangerous too.
teachers are half the problem... Blind leading the blind...
Thanks to the teachers, they don't even know what gender they are.
OMG I nearly wet myself looking at Ryan's expressions of disbelief and exasperation lol
I love how dude say “yes” at the end of every answer. It’s secret code “yes, they are this stupid” 😂.
This is so upsetting. It is not only the school system that is failing. America in general is failing it's people.
And their parents also need to take some responsibility in raising and educating their children
You realise murica IS its people, right? They do this, day in day out, by raising their children to be entitled imbeciles with literally not the sense to come in out of the rain. "Protecting" them from the word 'no', screaming at teachers instead of offspring, driving everywhere, and infecting the young with greed, hypercompetitiveness, anti-intellectuallism and worst of all : entitlement.
They have a lifetime to learn, I dont think I knew the answers at their age. I knew the time though, 1 moon. They will be alright in the end.
How else do the nutters get the population to vote for them? Keeping your population ignorant is a powerful strategy in Russia, China, N Korea and the USA. The main thing to note is that the ignorance is pretty universal in the USA while some of the more effective methods of enforcing ignorance simply apply it to general international news to enable their economic systems to continue.
@@alangaughran I went to China Oct 2019 as a tourist, all Chinese parents are very aware of the importance of education and having a job. I saw school children at historic sites with their teachers and school groups at no time were they in shopping centres or streets or on trains during school times. I have been to Russia in the 80's my coach tour guide was a university graduate. My young Russian neighbour is a university Botanist graduate, he works as a landscape gardener, full time. I dont know any N.Koreans but they will be very education oriented. I have been to Cuba and the taxi drivers were university graduates as was the young mother we gave a lift. You dont have to have a degree to be smart and we all have other talents to give like kindness, generosity, joy. I dont understand your comment about enforcing ignorance by news.
American students are so funny 😂😂 From Europe (France for me) it's just incredible to see that !
The girl naming the 5 states is clearly a native New Yorker because she gave the interviewer the 5 buroughs of New York which are Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, Manhattan and Staten Island.
This is as entertaining as it is terrifying.
I laughed way too hard at the “us was founded in bc” 🤣🤣💀
I wonder if she actually knows what BC means though.
That's what I thought , it's really scary to think they are old enough to own a gun🇬🇧🇬🇧
Maybe she thought (though I do not think so) that the question was 'When was the US geographically formed?', that would at least get her into the BC range.
@@Ben-xe8ps yeah,it's British colony 🇬🇧
@@Thurgosh_OG then she's a few million years away instead of a few thousand... Way better
I'm an Australian. I visited California in the late 70's. Most people did not know Australia existed or where it was located. People were surprised I spoke English. Many thought I was from Austria. My European friends (Holland, Germany, Switzerland, England) had a broad knowledge of my homeland. It's pretty hard to miss a country of 3 million square miles on a Global map.
I love how the movie “Idiocincracy” is literally coming true
My Irish mother born in rural Sligo could recite her × tables at 96 years of age - and was suffering with dementia ! RIP Mum xx
Dementia is a time shifter. Your mother went back to her schooldays in her mind. The thing thats nice is, many girls born when she was born werent allowed to go to school so its nice that she did.
Bless her
Long term memory and old learning remains intact, which is why she could still do it
The guy who asked the questions is a genius. He managed to find all these people who have never been to school or college. Even here in the UK I'm amazed how many young people have no knowledge of history or geography. What on earth are they teaching kids these days.
Gender identity, feminism and other fucking nonsense. Brainwashing new generations.
They teach them about 120 different genders. Because that is the most important thing they have to know
It starts in Kindergarten. Kids arrive at age 5 and are developmentally about 3. It's impossible to make up that difference in a school year. And every year after that the kid is expected to learn ever increasing quantities of information.
To compound the problem, teacher salaries haven't kept up with the cost of living so people who would've been excellent teachers go into other fields where they are paid more and have a lighter workload.
They teach them that it's okay to be a girl even if you're a boy, and that even boys can have babies
@@Snowflakes_Magical_Adventures ...and how they feel about it all.
I love his response at 15:36:"Don't be dumb, just know." 😂
I find the Panama Canal question interesting because even though the canal was physically always located in the country of Panama, it used to be part of USA territory before it was eventually reincorporated into Panama. As an aside, because of regional geography, to travel from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean you must pass through the Panama Canal going east to west.
I would love to ask their teachers the same questions.
Did these people finish any kind of school? If yes, who gave them their first school certificate?
Once you have such a big lack of knowledge, you complicate every simple question in your head, and you can`t think logically. That`s so sad. But the worst tragedy is that these people are allowed to vote.
You are so right but I seriously doubt these people will ever be interested in voting.
This is exactly who politicians want voting. You can tell them anything and they will believe it.
@@ickster23
Yes, it`s tragic!
Who is hiring these teachers?
@@corners23251 It's not about the teachers. It's about students and their parents. Kids don't want to study and teachers have no power over them. So much time goes to disciplining kids. If only the schools were allowed to be stricter...
It is kind of starting to make sense why college is so expensive in US: it must take lots of resources to bring this level of knowledge to the level of bachelor's degree... :)
ROFL
This is poetry 😂
Well said! (And good morning/labas rytas to you!) 🇱🇹😎
They graduate just as dumb. Now they work in teams not by themselves and hope that one person has a brain. They all get diploma’s.
Most of them are probably already college students
Congratulations...they live among you and vote
This goes back to Groucho Marx on "You Bet Your Life", when he asked the classic, "Who's buried in Grant's tomb?".
I remember my mom saying the older she got the more she realized she was a genius compared to what was coming up
Your Mum is/was wise.
Love it! We Europeans feel so wise watching it 😂😅
We are in compare -Einsteins 😂
And then realize in your average school we dont even learn the complicated math like algi. In europe and i think they try pushing that down americas throats.
@@rasenche4562 It certainly may be so … I had to learn it. However I must I don’t remember much… We even some geology in geography lessons. I don’t remember a thing..Admittedly it was hundert years ago. My children had half of it at school. Yet they could answer all questions here. Needless to add that most questions provided answers anyway. B/b I met people who can’t read maps ! But let us keep it among us :))
So do mos!t Americans
Really? Because there are similar videos of UK and French citizens that I've seen here on CZcams...
The guy saying yes with a straight face is the real hero here.
Thank you, thank you, thank you I needed a good laugh, the tears are streaming down my face 😂😂.
I am from the UK and my 10 year old grandson could answer these questions easily. Your country is is trouble if the younger generation cannot answer these easy questions. Not one of them could get a job even in a burger bar because they have to be able to count money and how many of each item are required which obviously is beyond them.
@Kate Moore Not all but I bet they would answer most of them, most of these questions are very basic that regardless of country we are from, we should really know them.
It was surprising how so many were struggling with them and that should send off alarm bells about the future generation depending on the percentage of the young that are educated like this.
I mean, don't get me wrong, there are clueless people all over the world but I've never seen it as bad as what we see it in the US unless we're going to poorer countries where many of the people have not been educated at all.
@Kate Moore they would , most of those people were early twenties,or teens , I’m sure the kids in the uk would know most questions by that age . ( hopefully) lol
@Kate Moore 😂
They don't have to count money... people pay with cards and the register handles that without any help. I think it's very rare that someone with cash walks in.
@Kate Moore I totally agree with you ,we have our share of numbskulls
A friend of mine was responsible for the acknowledgement of students from abroad to a German university. He always said that students from the US where at the same level as those of a West African third wirld country. I couldn’t believe it. Until now.
I think that is an insult to the African students.
I work for a community college in the US. We have a lot of students from West Africa. Most of them are better educated than our domestic students. We're open enrollment meaning we take anyone regardless of GPA or test scores and offer "learning support" courses, basically mandatory tutoring, to help low scoring students complete their college level English and Math courses. About 80% of our domestic students are required to take at least one of these support classes based on their test placement. Conversely, it's very rare that one of our immigrant students needs them at all if they come from a country where English is their 1st language.
@@eisamiller88 Interesting additional information, thank you.
Don’t offend African students, because they are better!
I thought I was dumb 😂😂thanks gods.
🤔"Hmmm. What is a country again?" 😂😂😂😂😂
Now we know why he agrees their answers are correct. Even when he tells them the answer they don't believe him.
No it's cause it's more entertaining
As an Englishman AND a carpenter, I learned to use imperial (feet and inches) while on site being taught by the old guys, and learned metric when I was at college.
So now I have the advantage of knowing both whenever it comes up. It's like being bilingual.
In Aus we still use cm, inch, metre, feet and mm. Just depends on what age you are. It took me a long time but I managed the changes and can use all of them now.
I suppose it depends upon your age, but nowadays everyone should know that as basic, what is a foot and what is a metre, how can people function without knowing basic measurements? Does that mean they don't even know what height they are?
But knowing both, doesnt imperial looks like a dumbass system? Its more like a its around this size guess system. 3/8s of an inch? So I picture an inch in my head dived that by 8 x 3. Or somewhere close to a little bit less than half an inch. If u say so much mm its clear to anyone.
@@superliegebeest544 yes, metric makes complete sense, simply because it's just like working in decimal, and imperial is gibberish to anyone who can't read it.......however, if I am just measuring for myself, I will use the nearest big line, whether it is the 5/10mm line or the 1/4 - 1/2 - 7/8 line....it's just easier for me than trying to find 1m573.5mm, for example.
I left school in 93, and we were taught both. But life was easy back then we could count genders only using our ears.
I Just so fking love his reactions :D
Dude is like ''To be fair.... But y'know, To be fair.... Hey, to be fair...''
Eventually he was bound to break~
"What is a country?" I taught a course at the local college, and had some students who didn't know what the word "political" meant. I used the word melancholy, and there was this blank look from the class. I asked if they knew what the word meant, and maybe a third did. I taught high school a little and the 11th graders were reading at a 4th grade level, or what USED to be a fourth grade level. This is not surprising since the kids don't do ANY homework. Sure, you could assign it, but no one would actually do it. The parents didn't care, and the administrators were salaried bureaucrats who were phoning it in. We're talking Idiocracy here--or something out of an Orwell novel.
“What is a country?” is a legitimate question when talking about Britain, though. Is England a country? (Answer: It is). If it is, is the UK a country? (Answer: Define what a country is)
Something Orwellish: Keep the masses ignorant in order to control them.
So the students were not learning because their daily lessons were not being reinforced in the home? Parents were not encouraging or assisting their children to do /how to do their lessons? --and the administrators simply did not care about the performance of their students?.... Can you think of any solution to this /these problems? Where do we start? Do we start in the home or do we begin with the classroom? (I suspect that eliminating or reducing the distractions of the internet, social media and video games would be a great help.)
@@jeff-hopkins You're right about the internet. The high school gave all the kids laptops connected to Wi-Fi, so they were continually playing games or looking at ads during class. And as for the kids' parents--WHAT PARENTS? Two of my students were cousins, living together, with one parent between the two of them. Another dropped out because she had to drive her alcoholic mother to the hospital where HER alcoholic mother was, since her own driver's license had been suspended. I found out that another one of my students was living in a homeless shelter, though his own mother was lying to us about it. In this state over half of all children are born out of wedlock. This is not Leave It to Beaver. It's not even Married with Children. The kids in my classes had been so brain-damaged by the internet that they did not have enough concentration to even watch a movie, much less read a book.
@@steveneardley7541 Assigned reading in 6th grade was Dicken's "Tale of Two Cities:" and we skimmed over some Shakespeare. "Two Cities" was relatable at that time because the kids and I used to go racing home from school each afternoon to watch Luke and Laura from the General Hospital soap opera, who were sort of emulating the storyline of the classic novel. We also read Orwell's 1984, in '84! 🙂 I'm afraid that I do not recall much else assigned reading due to a couple head injuries though.... But I do remember reading Catcher in the Rye while laying in a hospital bed after I woke from a coma one summer. --I finished the previous school year in the hospital so that I could graduate with my classmates.
The fact that I also never heard of the American-Mexican war but would still be able to answer it correctly and they can't BAFFLES ME!
My parents talked about history. Learning at school of minimum importance even back in the 50's.
I'm so happy I grew up in a time when education was important and a valuable tool to a future.
The defensive posture immediately taken up by Ryan as soon as that first one asked what a country was understandable
I'm always curious how many people he had to question to find those "specialists" 😂
the answer to this question could be even worse than the video itself, i prefer not to know 😅
yea it could really go either way. Im scared its 1
And what the cameraman can do to induce mistakes.
whatever the answer is, he found too many "specialists"
Americans are really something else
The interviewer, he kills me every time he said "Yes" to all of these totally stupid answers. Oh my goodness!
That's easier than getting in an argument. These people wouldn't accept the correct answer.
@@King-cc8uz This lack of knowledge is astonishing,even not being able to read a clock face blows me away,but you are right,it's best not to argue with these people.
@@andrewmccormack4295 Not being able to read a clock is actually not that surprising, they hardly used or saw since they were born. That's rather a generational evolution than real ignorance.
Responding with yes to a really bad answer is a bad choice. Also suggesting them to guess is bad choice, since for those questions you need to think not to guess. Demoralising videos
I have been watching a few of these videos and had to ask my children and was glad that they could answer these questions! But watching these , make me want to cry !
He said five states not five boroughs. She’s listing the five boroughs that are in the whole state of New York. 😂😂😂😂😂
It would be interesting to see what sort of representation those in the USoA would have if the voters had to pass the same tests as immigrants do to gain citizenship.
It would be even more interesting to see what sort of representation if the politicians had to pass the same immigration tests.
OMG
I think the percentage would be less than 10% of the population.
In order to block them from voting, a POC had to pass a test in order to register to vote. The test was so hard, 99% of whites couldn’t pass it, either. But only blacks had to take it.
Let's go even better. We should give that American History test to all members who hold govt offices from the Presidency all the way down to town alderman (with emphasis on congress members). They should have to take the history test, a test on the Constitution and one on the Bill of Rights. Every govt employee elected or appointed should have to pass these tests. Would that make too much sense? We should also make police officers take and pass a test on the bill of rights, disability (mental health) sensitivity, etc.
May be it is time for politicians to sit that test as you might suggest. And also if you want to get a gun license 😮
As a German I have problems with one of these questions too ... how many inches are in two feet ... I generally think, that the use of metres and centimetres is much easier than inch and foot. But after watching the video, I even doubt that these guys know how many centimetres are in two metres.
As an Aussie Gen-Xer, I grew up learning both metric and British imperial measurements as we were transitioning from imperial to metric in the 1970s.
I knew this despite being Czech, because I often encounter American description of bodily height, like 5'6", and I know it only goes to eleven before it becomes another foot. But I wouldn't be able to tell you off the bat just how long 24 inches is in centimetres 😅 Go metric 😁
@@Subject.13same! I’ve also learned 5,6 as to what heigh I am. Or 5,6 1/2. It only tells me that it’s very different from centimeters and meters.
I also had to go check after that question and all I can say is americans have some giant ass feet o.O
@@mari97216 Hey, me too! That's why I used it as an example 😅
I love how your rage just keeps building up with every clip...
The "BC" killed me... 😂😂😂😂😂
I love education in Germany. There are a lot of bad educated people in Germany too, but I think IT would bei harder to find people who mess up that hard. Free education and to know your education is not connected to your parents income is really a great thing. Obviously money can provide a better education, but the "normal" is alright.
But I have a question: How do these people survive? And what happend all the time these kids sat on a bench at school? Waiting for the end of the day?
@@JochenHormes No, I am afraid 😱
You couldn't even buy drugs with the level of maths that these people have. I wonder if they could answer " how many 8- balls of coke in a kilo"? Probably! It's a survival strategy! The curriculum should be framed in reality!
@@bloozee maybe that's the reason they don't use cash 🤔 they would pay random amounts of money 🤔 I think a dealer could trick everyone "price ist 20, you gave 50, so you get the drugs and 10 Dollars back." 😝
i have no idea what job they can do....
"to know your education is not connected to your parents income"
Sadly it is.
This is a huge problem in germany. Allthough education is mostly free parents chose the education level they have for their kids. Education equals income. So parent with low income often are parents with low education and they chose a low educational level for their kids.
.I’m Central American and I have laughed so hard watching this!!!! 🤣 I used to think our education was the worst: not anymoreee.
Compared to US American it probably alot better... sad is just that US Americans refere to themself as 'Americans'... its an insult to Americanos...
@@Patrik6920 maybe it had to do with the fact that our scholar system was either catholic or military supervised so we had to learn or else we were punished or laughed at for being “dumb and useless”: no one wants to be labeled like that.
@@ninachiflada ..probably evoled a bit since..and evolving... US on the other hand taken the fast track to dumb down the whole education system... we can all see the effects...but it will get worser and worser if it continues... its a downhill spiral... even now thers Teachers and even Professors that lack so much... and thay are supposed to teach things thay dont understand...to childeren that dont care..
while at it add in some laughter and shaming of kids with learning disabilities...
a perfect coctail of creating a society with high rates of crimes, an excessive ammount of poor and starving ppl, unhealthy everything...
while at it why not prep the food with compounds thats banned wourld wide that agrevates cancers, nerological disorders and such...
You are writing in fluent English. Clearly your system is really good. How many Americans (non-Latinos) would be able to respond to your comment in perfect spanish?
That's because you, guys, haven't seen what our Educational System is like, down here in Brazil ... 😢😢😢 Shameful ...
Anyway, 😂😂😂
Next episode "What color is blue? ummm, PINK!" "Yes....smfh"
Funnily enough the number of moons is actually quite contested. There’s many episodes of a panel show here in the uk called qi where they mention the updates over the years of what scientists believe
I remember that too , so I didn't really know what the correct answer was.
Kudos to the guy for his infinite patience. I would have hit them or myself in sheer frustration!
I swear I was going mad for a second. I was listening to the video and at 14:08 I thought "Oh easy, that's 100.", then I hear Ryan go into his Spiel about it obviously not being a hundred.
I really needed to go back and realise that the video says 77 + 33 while he says 77 + 23. I swear to god I thought I suddenly had lost the ability to do math for a second.
Caught me like that too.
you are absolutely right, it says 73 + 23. Ryan Wuzer is wrong
The guy in the video says 77+23, subtitles confirm this.
@@elemar5 That's right. and the video show 33.
Yes - I didn't even get to "Ryan's Spiel" because I was sure the questioner said "23" and that's what the closed captions said as well, but the number on-screen in the vid was 33. Hd to go back and check.
I really enjoyed your video and comments plus learning more about the world around me.
🤣🤣 Yo Ryan.... you are very inventive in finding explanations for the dumbness of your fellow countrymen.... I LIKE IT 👍👍
You know, I think it is not just the USA. I once saw a Jamy Oliver cooking show, where he was teaching teenagers how to cook. One girl did not know why the water was producing those little bubbles. I mean seriously,... she HAD NO IDEA what cooking water was.
I was buying groceries last week and the cashier asked me what the piece of fruit I was buying was called. It was a passion fruit.
@@kayelle8005 TBH, that’s not a common or garden item in the UK shopping basket either. Don’t think I’d have distinguished it from a mango externally.
(Just Googled the image now and can see the difference 😂😂😂)
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Poor Jamie was dealing with kids from some particularly educationally unenlightened families though😢🇬🇧
Have you no idea how to spell Jamie Oliver
I guess you mean boiling water?
"Isn´t the northpole below us?" -- this one made me laugh so hard :D
It might be on a flat earthers map!
@@joyfulzero853 if you wanna be strict, there is no ''UP'' and ''DOWN''
At 16.05, the spark in Ryan's eyes seems to have gone out.
its like they are not able to understand the questions. like they are just not used to thinking that way. like humans who just survived for 20+ years but got no input. like people who grew up in isolation or something. like nobody talked to them when they were children. you cannot just put them in a school and expect them to learn things like "normal" kids. they need to be picked up where they actually are. they need someone to play toddler games with them and take them seriously and go from there. forreal.
It's so sad to see how our young people have been dumbed down.
They did that all by themselves.
That degree of ignorance is only possible if you don’t give shit about the world around you.
@Celisar1 they care a lot about the world around them. Just, "the world around them" is what they can see in their smartphones.
The WHO warned that the average IQ was dropping 7 points per generation since the 1970's. A generation is 20 years, 50 years have passed since 1970, so today's average is 82.5. It's a good thing for these people that the Motor Vehicle Department doesn't test IQ, because you need an IQ of 86 or higher to hold a driver's license. An IQ of 82 means you're mentally disabled!
The schools are valiantly trying. So where is the problem?
@@carlinetorweihe4246 The problem is that education isn't in the hands of the educators. It's in the hands of the bean-counters, who treat education as a cost. In so doing, they're ignoring quality (of textbooks, for example) and going with the cheapest crap available. Back in the 70's renowned physicist Richard Feyman was briefly in charge of adjudicating textbooks. He wrote that his recommendations were always ignored in favour of cheap, useless junk. Read Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman for plenty of examples. It's available as a free pdf.
@14:16 He does ask what 77+23 is, which is 100. The question on screen says 77+33 which is 110....
I was bothered with that too
I am here for your emotional roller coaster. Hahahaha Your facial expressions are so cute 😂🤣
Love your final "whattt?" 😮
I'm from Europe, not to brag, but this is elementary school knowledge, and in my country, probably all of Europe
It's not embarrassing, it's catastrophic
I apologize for the inconvenience
We had limited toys growing up but we played chess and games such as choosing a letter and than recording countries, capital cities, rivers, mountains etc. and for each answer getting points. If somebody else had the same answer their points were halved and if someone didn't know answers didn't get any points. The winner was the one with most of the points. That was before we started school.
In the 80s and 90s this was taught in America too.
Yes, I also learnt that the Queen of England is Queen of Canada. And I was also puzzled by the question "what is a country" when referring to the UK - specially as a football fan.
The American education system is a sham. I was a middle school librarian (6th-8th grade) and I had several teachers tell me that their students were reading at second and third grade levels. These kids are advancing grades without knowing how to read or write properly.
@@samsonian9468 I’m a behavior therapist and in the schools that I have worked in most of the kids are far below grade level. They also only have math and reading. They don’t do history, science or spelling. It’s shocking. The kids don’t have any homework and they barely do any class work. It’s a joke. When I was in school we have homework every night. We worked all day in class. If you didn’t perform you got held back.
It’s not just the US where this excruciating embarrassment occurs,it happens here too (UK).
This world is rapidly turning to shit,any passing aliens would take one look at us and say ‘’fuck that,let’s get the fuck out of here”
Yes I agree,
Haven't seen that here in Finland yet, like sure there's idiots everywhere, but this level of ignorance is really hard to find here. Honestly not sure if it's just few or many countries going to shit, or did the apple just not fall far from the tree?
@@annep.1905 It was an analogy clever clogs.
The only aliens I see in my country are the illegal ones mate.
As a Brit, that's horrifying to know. I think the only one I didn't know was the Vice President one, but then again I'm 40 this year.
@@TheInsaneVane Keep in mind that these videos are edited - he only shows you the dumbest responses.
Now I understand the 'Trump' phenomenon. It must be contagious.
The English monarch is also the Canadian Monarch. She was right.
British