AMERICAN REACTS TO 'ARE AMERICANS DUMBER THAN THE REST OF THE WORLD?'
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Canada here, in elementary school we were given a blank map of the world and had to fill in every country, every capital city, every ocean. We also studied history of the world in great depth for year's. The U.S. Doesn't do that and buy the way I know metric, pounds and the U.S measurements as well and I. Can convert them
And about the cold war: US was very much in it and actually the biggest and main counterpart to the Soviet Union 🙈. The Cold War was mainly USA vs. Soviet Union. 🙈
Or the US vs the communist
@@jimmykarlsson2567 Not really. More fair, if you want to name countries, to say it was USA vs. Soviet Union (and even more accurate the western block vs. the eastern block). And/or if you want to mix in communism as one of the counterparts the other part must then be “the free western world” and not just “US” ☺️.
Why are Americans always excuse themself with that “USA are so big” thing? Yes, Sweden are small country but still we learn about the rest of the Europe AND USA…AND the rest of the world. And Sweden loves to travel, not only inside the country or just in Europe, we love to travel to USA, Thailand Australia and other country far away. And the same goes for many other countries in Europe. Stop excuse yourself all the time. 🫣 Love your show btw ❤❤❤
We've also always, in out entire lives, been fed with American culture, politics and ideology (and to some extent European) through tv, while the rest of the world neither have been as successful, productive or interesting enough for Americans. So that's why almost the entire world know about the US, but the US know very little about the world. That's not the entire reason tho. It seems like the American education system have been just as uninterested in the rest of the world.
As an American (first of all I knew all these questions but just speaking about the general American), we don't know as much because of our schooling. We only learn what is taught to us and SADLY we are mainly only taught about America in most classes. So blame the school system and not the student. For those of us who know general knowledge the rest of the world knows it's because we had to learn about those things on our own time, we aren't blessed to have a teacher sit down and teach us about it in class most of the time.
I don’t think we’re “dumb” just uneducated and that’s truly sad.
@@accordionSWE umm, no..
The Berlin wall fell 89 but the fall of the Soviet union marked the end of the cold war at 91. (I wasn't first pointing that out)
The cold war ended 1991 when Sovjet union fell and Warzaw pact desolved. 1989 the wall came down an joined Germany and that started the ending of the cold war.
As an American I agree we don't know a lot of common knowledge the rest of the world knows, BUT that means blame the education system and not the student. Calling Americans dumb because we don't always know certain things is like calling a teenager dumb for not knowing how to drive or do taxes or do certain household chores. You would blame the parent and not the child since the parent should have taught them.
Yes and blame on many other systems f ex healthcare, tax system, voting system, lack of interest in anything else other than money .
I’ve always seen the word ”dumb” in this kind of vidéos. Wouldn’t ” ignorant” be a better word for it? ”Dumb” means ”dum” in Swedish and ”ignorant” is ”okunnig”. You can be dumb without being ignorant and vice versa, that goes for everybody.
I was thinking the same thing.
Also America is taught about America, not the rest of world
About WWII: When the soviets marched toward Berlin, American Studebaker trucks handled the logistics of the army, and the soldiers had Spam and other American canned foods in their backpacks.
I would have kind of hesitated about when the cold war ended, it could have been in 1989 when the Berlin wall fell, or in 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed. It's not really history to me, I was out in the streets protesting against Gorbachevs use if tanks against the rebellion in the Baltic states! Some TV station asked me if I thought Gorbachev would care about people in a small Swedish town demonstrating against him, such a typically Swedish question...
The cold war is tricky because it wasn't so much a war as a geopolitical tension between the US and the Soviet Union. So a date for when it ended is tricky since different sources cite different end dates... like in the video they used a source saying '89, but I was taught 1991. And a few sources I just checked also say '91. So I think it's not super clear cut.
I think the Soviet Union vanished in 1991 but the Cold War ended in 1989.
Or i don't know 😀, like you said it's tricky.
It's probobly over 100 diffrent events involving over 50 or more countries from 1945 to 1989 or 1991.
It's hard to explain in just one night, you maybe have to describe it in one week or more
It's fairly simple. The Cold War officially ended in 1989, but there were still remnants of it left until 1991, when the Baltic states gained their
independence from the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall finally fell and the Soviet Union collapsed.
However, you could say that the Cold War still hasn't ended, what with the oligarchs scooping up all property and business of value, and Putin
doing his very best to reform the Soviet Union under his own rule...
It just funny when americans say they for sure been abroad when they been to Florida 😂
Side note: I think the whole western world becomes dumber and dumber for every year lol 🙈. But in all seriousness and especially in Sweden, student results, IQ, basic knowledge has somehow dropped dramatically last 25 years. No joke and it’s a shame 😳.
Maybe the changing population explains it...
Take a look at the people our dumb ass government let in. Your average swede isn't dumb. They let in a bunch of no good troublemakers (not everyone obv but a lot of assholes coming to take advantage of our welfare) in and it's making everything worse for everyone. My neighborhood in Stockholm used to be a calm neighborhood with a bunch of families. Now it's a bunch of gangs and violence and drugs here. Take a guess if these problematic people are ethnically Swedish or not....
I was unlucky to study among these people too. They were disruptive in classes, rude, aggressive, had no respect for teachers or the school, and made every single day a headache. You can always tell when a foreigner moved to Sweden because they like the country vs when a foreigner came for free shit. The difference in behavior is astronomical. When people come to your country to take advantage of your generosity they obviously have no interest in assimilating and are just rotten people to the core. Swedes are waking up to this reality and because the only ones who actually want to do something about it are the "extreme" right-wing party, they have been getting considerably more votes.
I'm Swedish. The only answer I didn't know was the miles/kilometers one, simply because 99% of the world's countries rely on the metric system, and I don't
ever have a need to convert these sorts of numbers. Not unless I'd move to the US or Britain, which I won't.
Anyway, my theory as to why the US education system may be suffering compared with that of other countries, is that it has to do with the US being
an empirical power. And empirical powers, when observed through history, tend to focus on their own concerns and not so much on those of other countries.
Which means that their citizens are mostly served a biased portion of nationalistic curriculums, rather than the steady diet of international knowledge
that students in other countries enjoy.
So does this make Americans more stupid? I wouldn't say so. I mean, the mental capacity for learning IS there.
It's more a case of being denied the opportunity and encouragement to learn. And this results in generation after generation of people who don't really see
the value in learning anything that doesn't show up on tests; things that are required of them to know in order to pursue a professional career.
The great victim of all this is what used to be called "common knowledge". I don't think there is such a thing anymore.
However, there's an abundance of "common stupidity". And the saddest part is that it doesn't have to be this way. But it is.
Hi Kimberly Sorce !
Pling pling pling.
How cold could it get during the Cold War ?
1. Very cold 2. Not cold. X. Who cares ?! 🥶 🤣
Skål Tom.
1 mile is 1.6 km/1600 meters.
1.5km = 1 and a half km/ 1500 meters. 1.6 km is 1600 meters 100 meters more than 1 and a half km.
Is that even in question anymore? A systematic dismantling of the education system has been going on for decades.
Funny video! 😀😀
I've seen some videos of young Swedish people just as "inaccurate" as any american would be, so. Maybe we shy away from the camera more so it doesn't show as much. 😂
Coldwar was America vs russia
Or America vs the communist, but mostly against Soviet
@@jimmykarlsson2567 Actually not only “America”. It was the whole western block against the eastern block where USA and Soviet Union were the main players.
@@bbeightynine yess it began in 1947 when Joseph Stalin announced the iron curtain over the Eastern Europe and Winston Churchill 💪💪💪 had that famous speech
@@bbeightynine but i thought it ended in 1991 when the Union fall
@@jimmykarlsson2567 The fall of the Berlin wall and the uprising among people in Eastern European states begun in 1989.
Allies in the 2nd World War were Great Britain, United States and Soviet Union.
Those were the main three, yes. But there were others.
Yes in the majority
Here in Sweden we are so small country so we have to know little bit about everything regarding the whole world.
But as you said, the US is so huge of a country so of course knowledge about others countries and societies are lacking a little.
Y'all have enough on your own plate
Come on..USA is not even 250 years old.. Sure it is big. But fewer people, and less history. That is no excuse. And we don´t have to know anything. We chose to know. And they chose not to know.
@@wtfucrazy what???
Thank you for an amazing video and i wouldn't say Amercans are dumber than other people, It's all individuals. And just a quick thought, I wouldn't say that the cold war didn't take place in the us since it was not a literal war but more of a tension between Soviet and the US. A bit surprised though the german girl didn't know cus i think the end of the cold war was part of the reason the berlin wall fell.
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It's not a problem that you're stupid, that can happen to anyone, the problem is that you want to rule the world like that.
The Bible and Mao Zedongs biography is 2 of the most selling books. Harry Potter is 3rd
Hi Kim👍🏼👀 why are they 3 Europe against 2 Americans¿???? Det är ju inte så rättvist??
You mean fair.
@@gregmullins6927 yes Greg i mean (Ärlig) Fair 👍🏼🇸🇪 and i just wright like it sounds like sorry for my bad english 👍🏻❤️🇸🇪
@@Hammarspiken That's alright Benny,I hope this helped you.
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@@Hammarspiken Thanks Benny,that will be very interesting 👍
let it sink in that that USSR won ww2... with help of US UK and so on. not the other way around :)
The bilbe isn't a book? Got pages, looks like a book, one of the first ones printed... Not a book... The cold war started in 1915? How? And you agreed to way too many of them? Please stay in the US... The Cold War is a cultural thing to you? Nope. Americans aren't stupid, only the ones from The US! Harry Potter is the best selling book? Who has the attention span of a... Look! A bike!
Kimberley är en🤡
Jag tror inte att hon fattar att "amerikan" egentligen betecknar alla som bor i Amerika öht.