Americans Failing At Simple Geography For 11 Minutes Straight

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2 ай бұрын

I spent the past few years quizzing Americans on geography. Many times they couldn't answer simple questions, like naming three countries outside of the Americas. Here's some highlights. This video is not meant to bash Americans but to raise awareness about the education system and to hopefully inspire people to educate themselves on general knowledge. I never laugh at an American for their lack of knowledge. If I laugh, it's only because they either rage quit or because I found the answer funny (in a positive way).
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@ImBokeh 2 ай бұрын

California, Paris, California

@lingualizer 2 ай бұрын

classic

@ImBokeh 2 ай бұрын

@@lingualizer I rewatched like 4 times, your face killed me

@jamesavakian4977 2 ай бұрын

Fun fact: Average IQ in California is 95. Los Angeles Democrats 89

@Jarwin-GG 2 ай бұрын

@@jamesavakian4977 could have figured

@Breadster Ай бұрын

I watched this bit so many times

@GabrielPalOfficial 2 ай бұрын

Here in Greece, the schools teach the six-continent combined-America model. And Australia is referred as Oceania.

@zackkatopodis9665 2 ай бұрын

That’s very interesting! I always found his phrasing of outside of America confusing as an US citizen precisely because in the US we use “America” colloquially for the USA, and North/South America or “the Americas” for the continents. So when people start listing Canada, Mexico, Bolivia, Panama, etc., and he says “no outside of America” I sense the miscommunication. Of course I don’t think that would have helped many people in this case but I’ve seen it trip people up who do know geography fairly well.

@Ignacio-MV 2 ай бұрын

Same in Chile, and almost most of The Americas as far as I know

@TheCriminalViolin 2 ай бұрын

I wish the world would stop teaching Europe is a continent, since that's never been true once. It's a subcontinent. But yeah, the variability in what is taught when and where with respect to the Americas in the continent model is brutal. Sometimes they teach Central America is North America, sometimes they teach it's south, others teach it correctly as a subcontinent. Some place Mexico in Central America, most place it in North America, and others place it in South America. It just makes zero sense.

@TheCriminalViolin 2 ай бұрын

@@zackkatopodis9665 As a fellow American (Oregonian), I do NOT ever have the same experience or issue with the "outside America", because I do not ever identify this country as America. Never have, never will as it takes a big ego to do, and confuses people. It's just the US. That's it. And it's a country in North America, or, America. If anyone says "America", I associate it by default with both north & south, and thus Central America too. But technically, Oregonians are unique in that we're also the only people in the US who only say "we're from Oregon" or "we're Oregonians", and never "we're from the states" "we're American", or the like, so that _MIGHT_ play a part in that for me.

@CarlosEduardoSchneiderZanatti 2 ай бұрын

Same here in Latin America

@C_In_Outlaw3817 2 ай бұрын

The one with the red curly hair was gaslighting you so hard to cover up his stupidity

@Jay_and_Meeka 2 ай бұрын

i've never been more frustrated watching something 🤣

@tonybaihao4178 2 ай бұрын

That's also one of the reasons why I hate the fact only the USA is considered just "America", as if the rest of the continent in the 6-continent model (single America) didn't count as America. When Amerigo Vespucci set foot on the giant continent, he mainly went to the southern part, so his name should have meaning.

@OddSwiftGoose 2 ай бұрын

dont believe it on all social media

@OddSwiftGoose 2 ай бұрын

@@Jay_and_Meeka dont believe it on all social media

@OddSwiftGoose 2 ай бұрын

@@tonybaihao4178 dont believe it on all social media

@619WWEFAN 2 ай бұрын

2:55 - 4:02 We all encountered people like this before. I’d have just left him immediately, you got the tolerance of a saint putting up with him 😂

@lingualizer 2 ай бұрын

trying my best

@radorigami 2 ай бұрын

As an American, I don't claim him as one of us

@619WWEFAN 2 ай бұрын

It’s not really that they get the questions wrong, rather how overly confident some of them get and they hate being corrected / learning. It somewhat comes across as arrogant

@TheCriminalViolin 2 ай бұрын

That's the signature American mentality and attitude. Land of the Ignorant, Home of the Arrogant as I always say! (I really hate this country sometimes)

@RadexONFunGaming1 2 ай бұрын

In this context I am grateful for even knowing Czechoslovakia as a thing 6:57. If it is outside Europe it is a miracle even this knowledge and I can't blame them, the split was so peaceful that many people haven't even realised it. I am sure that even some elders from the UK think that here is still Czechoslovakia.

@Aidansands2 2 ай бұрын

Sure my well educated parents continuously say czechoslovakia by accident anyway. They know they split up they just forget it ig

@TheCriminalViolin 2 ай бұрын

I quickly learned of it when I was very little. The maps and atlases changed overnight, so that helped a lot. Never was confused about it. The split was also WAY later than most people realize. I think it happened in 96 or 97, which made me 2 or 3 when it happened funny enough. For the record I am a Oregonian, so far outside Europe.

@RadexONFunGaming1 2 ай бұрын

@@TheCriminalViolin Thank you for sharing your experience. Just I have to correct you. Split happened in 1.1.1993 - three years and a few days after comunism (more like socialism in reality) regime falled. That is just to clarify the context.

@TheCriminalViolin 2 ай бұрын

@@RadexONFunGaming1 I appreciate that! And yes, the USSR was in fact self-proclaimed Socialist, given that is literally one of the S' in their name/acronym. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Of course it's hotly contested and argued if anything the world has seen (including with the USSR) was anywhere remotely related or close to true socialism in the first place. *_SIGH_*

@joaquinfernandez3347 2 ай бұрын

Let's be honest, shaming ignorant people at geography is so funny

@GolditoCruzPR 6 күн бұрын

Cherry picking

@ZapperRS 2 ай бұрын

American education system 101

@OddSwiftGoose 2 ай бұрын

dont believe it on all social media

@HappytreeLuis 2 ай бұрын

It has got to be more than that... It's so easy to pick up all of this information from movies, and TV-shows even.

@ashtinpeaks9972 2 ай бұрын

Fuck off, European cunts are such arrogant pricks sometimes. We also have some of the smartest people in the fucking world. Congrats on highlighting dumbasses that waste their time on omegale congrats. God you guys are fucking pricks

@Mount.Troglodyte 2 ай бұрын

@@HappytreeLuisTheres almost a resistance to want to learn at all with a lot of them I’ve noticed.

@carsonsmith6635 2 ай бұрын

@@Mount.Troglodytebro this is only social media this is nothing like real life

@v7throttle 2 ай бұрын

'Name a country' *'Obama'*

@lingualizer 2 ай бұрын

the only right answer

@OddSwiftGoose 2 ай бұрын

dont believe it on all social media

@lentilsoup460 2 ай бұрын

No Obama is a real country silly, it's next to Yemen. Maybe look at a map next time?@@OddSwiftGoose

@HarlenEAP 2 ай бұрын

@@lentilsoup460 that's oman, however there's an actual city in japan called obama

@v7throttle 2 ай бұрын

@@HarlenEAP Oman? I thought it was Obrador?

@baronvonjo1929 2 ай бұрын

I don't understand how our education system can create some of the smartest people on the planet who have made some crazy technology while at the same time creating this. Remember one teacher lost his mind when he realized a 9th grader didnt know what or where the Atlantic Ocean was. I had school with that kid since elementary and we had maps and went over history involving that ocean so many times. It was crazy.

@Flawaffles 2 ай бұрын

U guys import smart people from other countries. Innovation happens in Asia

@evilbee94 2 ай бұрын

You should have said “outside THE americas” because it’s kinda confusing when you say “outside of America” because that is the most common word for the USA

@user-oc9ks3oj6s Ай бұрын

They still are ignorant

@silverdrumvideo 26 күн бұрын

Exactly

@aurelianobuendia549 2 ай бұрын

Wait a few years and you'll have the opportunity to do the same in Europe.

@OddSwiftGoose 2 ай бұрын

dont believe it on all social media

@ashtinpeaks9972 2 ай бұрын

You don't have to wait plenty of dumbasses in Europe. Turns out when you select only dumbasses to put in your video you only get dumbases because. 1. You get more views 2. You get to act superior

@Verbalaesthet 2 ай бұрын

Ich hab damals noch in der Schule gelernt, dass es 5 Kontinente gibt: Europa, Asien, Afrika, Australien und Amerika.

@lingualizer 2 ай бұрын

passt doch, gibt unterschiedlich viele Kontinente, je nachdem, wo du zur Schule gegangen bist

@dieschachbrettfee2060 25 күн бұрын

Mein Vater hat mir beigebracht, dass es fünf Kontinente gibt, in der Schule habe ich dann aber gelernt (so um 2007), dass es sieben sind. 8:33 „Antarctica, America, Africa, Asia“ „Three left.“ Wie sind da noch drei übrig?

@user-cw9np3ck3g 2 ай бұрын

It is interesting that we in Russia learn at school that there is 6 continents and that Europe and Asia are a single continent Eurasia, which frankly makes sense to me. We can divide Europe and Asia, but we call parts of the world (части света), not continents. It seems to me, there is no such category in English.

@TheCriminalViolin 2 ай бұрын

I agree with this. Eurasia is very real, Europe and Asia are in fact subcontinents, and I don't even know when the hell the US began to teach they were somehow their own continents, but it was sometime while I was home-schooled (so no earlier than 2006) or after I would have graduated (2012). It is a HUGE peeve for me as a Geography and map nut myself. And it makes absolutely zero logical sense. I mean the US teaches that not only is North and South America their own continents (which they are), they unlike most of the world, teach & know that Central America is a subcontinent of both north & south. So that makes them hypocritical and contradict themselves teaching Europe is a full continent.

@Xansey 2 ай бұрын

this dude with "there are any free nations except for america" got me

@OddSwiftGoose 2 ай бұрын

dont believe it on all social media

@kfitch42 2 ай бұрын

I think some of the confusion comes from the fact that to Americans, America means U.S.A. So when you say "outside of America", they hear "outside of the USA". If you want to refer to North and South America together you say "the Americas".

@spiceupat2000 2 ай бұрын

Yup.

@curly_bill 2 ай бұрын

Yeah a lot of the world just refers to US as America

@TheCriminalViolin 2 ай бұрын

Which as a Oregonian, I really hate.

@vasypowerhouse92 2 ай бұрын

6:57 NO SHOT I MET ANOTHER PERSON WHO THINKS CZECHOSLOVAKIA STILL EXISTS!!!!!(the other one was in a video where a guy asked random people to name some flags and that girl said ,,Czechoslovakia" to Spain flag.... CZECHOSLOVAKIA DOESNT EXIST ANYMORE FOR 30 YEARS!)

@LesnikSan 2 ай бұрын

it still exists in our hearts

@bonbahoue 2 ай бұрын

@Lingualizer : The question of the number of continents remains open: seven by convention (Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, Oceania), three in the strict sense of the definition (America, Antarctica, Eufrasia) and for a long time it was taught at school there were 5 continents (Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania). Antarctica was considered a southern land. This is why when you ask the question for number of continents the answers can be different depending on the age and country of the person.

@alexanderhoak 2 ай бұрын

One thing to note, since it threw a lot of people off here, is that in English (esp. American English. but others as well), saying "America" typically refers to the USA, whereas "The Americas" refers to the supercontinent. That's why so many people were confused when Canada was wrong. It unintentionally was more of a trick question, based on knowing how other language speakers perceive the difference, rather than a straight forward geography question.

@Neo11020 2 ай бұрын

6:54 cuba isnt in south america😅

@lingualizer 2 ай бұрын

yeah that's my bad haha

@seannikolic8223 2 ай бұрын

When we studied geography , we learned that America is one continent (no north and south). So if there's South and North America... then to which continent Central America belongs?

@raweggwhite 2 ай бұрын

Central America is part of North America@@seannikolic8223

@OddSwiftGoose 2 ай бұрын

@@raweggwhite dont believe it on all social media

@thalassophile_artist 2 ай бұрын

@@seannikolic8223 north america....

@asja4216 2 ай бұрын

I know: Russia 🇷🇺, India 🇮🇳 and Rwanda 🇷🇼. There are 7 continents: Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, North America, Australia and Antarctica. BTW, I dont hate Americans for not knowing something 🇧🇦❤️🇺🇲

@Flawaffles 2 ай бұрын

oof

@klaud7311 Ай бұрын

I judge them not by how much they know, but by how content they are with what they know.

@aaronfllynne 2 ай бұрын

3:11 you made a mistake here, 197 countries not 179

@longestvideoever 28 күн бұрын

Yeah this guy such a know it all he thinks cuba is in south america.

@silverdrumvideo 26 күн бұрын

Back when I was a kid, we were taught that America consisted of three different continents - North, Central, and South.

@rguz333 4 күн бұрын

@Lingualizer I'm curious. In your country, do you learn that the Caribbean is part of South America? In live in the USA and here we are taught the Caribbean is a region distinct from the Americas, but many times for the sake of convenience, it is often categorized as a sub-region of North America.

@Lasieee 13 күн бұрын

“Name a continent” “australia” “that’s correct” mfw

@ati5477 2 күн бұрын

„Name a Country- auschwitz „😳😳😳

@Tri-Ant 2 ай бұрын

This is so sad tbh

@djendjendjendjendjen9442 2 ай бұрын

Cherry-picking aside it’s still a lot of cases of this happening

@GourangaPL 2 ай бұрын

any similar service running nowdays?

@OddSwiftGoose 2 ай бұрын

dont believe it on all social media

@lingualizer 2 ай бұрын

Ome.tv is the best option currently

@Lasieee 13 күн бұрын

11:03 did he just say Auschwitz is a city?….

@Haupt1 Ай бұрын

Washington, North Korea, Africa

@user-oc9ks3oj6s Ай бұрын

9:10 @?

@bethesdagamer7971 2 ай бұрын

6:54 This is the only time I’ve heard Lingualizer be wrong about Geography.

@Salmon-rm3tv 14 күн бұрын

I like it how one of the guys tried to argue about the America thing when he needed an explanation on what a country is

@Magmabbx 2 ай бұрын

i really wanna know how he recovered from this

@masti4ara 2 ай бұрын

God, they're so ignorant! "What's a country?", "What's a continent?" They think a country is a continent. 😄 But it's not their fault...

@amaliacristescu3560 3 күн бұрын

My American friend asked me if we have washing machines in Europe because her history teacher told them that we don’t have and we wash our clothes in the river

@maxdog1299 Ай бұрын

It’s 3:00am in the US and he’s talking to teenagers that are wasted What a cool guy

@lingualizer Ай бұрын

I usually record my videos when it's late night CET, meaning it's afternoon in the US

@daxi34 Ай бұрын

I like how the guy licking a microphone answered almost perfectly

@PoojaK-su8jx 2 ай бұрын

Wait but what is there in their syllabus and how do they pass if they don't know all of this ?

@OddSwiftGoose 2 ай бұрын

dont believe it on all social media

@TheCriminalViolin 2 ай бұрын

In the US, it almost doesn't even matter if you completely flunk these subjects to get your high school diploma and graduate. It is considered a "unimportant" subject here and almost nobody pays any attention either since they themselves do not care at all about this topic. They see it in the category with Transit, logistics, and other similar topics - Boring and "why should I care? it's useless anyway!". That's the category, sadly. The irony I love those exact topics, but hate most of the ones that are considered important, and ironically that most people here do pay attention to themselves. My brain and me zone out or just end up not trying due to it being boring, uninteresting and otherwise incapable of doing the work.

@Pyrofan12 2 ай бұрын

Bei manchen hab ich mich schon gefragt, ob die absichtlich falsch geantwortet haben...

@Garcwyn 2 ай бұрын

The audacity of these people it’s something else

@daniel3139 2 ай бұрын

cuba is in south america??

@gatiskevans5516 2 ай бұрын

Actually Cuba and Puerto Rico (Antilles) technically is in North America not South America. Also number of continents is different based what you are taught in schools. It could be from 4 up to 7. Basically it depends how strictly you divide borders of continents (The Americas and Afroeurasia for example).

@Flawaffles 2 ай бұрын

7 is the number of continents taught in America

@gatiskevans5516 2 ай бұрын

@@Flawaffles here in my country Latvia we are taught 7 too. I just know that this isn't really a global consensus. I think in France they teach 5 continents for example. Which is interesting how ones view of the world can be different based on a country you live in.

@TheCriminalViolin 2 ай бұрын

@@Flawaffles It actually depends on where in the US. Seriously. It's so fucking annoying and illogical that it varies, but it does. One of my many peeves with the geography community as a Geography nut. It especially depends when it comes down to things like subcontinents. Is Mexico North or South America? Or you may have been taught it is Central America depending on where in the US you get taught. And Central America itself? Well, sometimes it's still a stand alone subcontinent with Mexico attached, sometimes without, or it's part of South America, part of North America... it's exhausting and nonsensical.

@endeavor3406 Ай бұрын

Oh hell nah, she doesn't even know what country she lives in? 💀

@TungNguyen-te7kb 2 ай бұрын

hi what platform did use?

@lingualizer 2 ай бұрын

that was Omegle before it shut down!

@Bogmore1 2 ай бұрын

Maybe put a running total of how many people got it wrong and how many got it right.

@hartmannjano2169 2 ай бұрын

6:54 In WHERE??!?

@Frotheru_The_Dragon Ай бұрын

In Obama

@wifisukks 2 ай бұрын

hard to watch but love your videos lol

@TheDarkCeratosaurus 11 сағат бұрын

0:19 are they ok? holy shit lmao XD

@PierrePelletier1994 2 ай бұрын

@lingualizer There are 12 countries in South America, Cuba and Puerto Rico are part of North America, not South

@user-pv6vn9jd3c Күн бұрын

1:17 - Europe is a continent - Yeah, I know

@carsonsmith6635 2 ай бұрын

Yesss these r bsck finally

@Cez189 2 ай бұрын

F in chat... Awesome video! 👀

@OddSwiftGoose 2 ай бұрын

dont believe it on all social media

@Cez189 2 ай бұрын

F in chat for not knowing basic knowledge, in this case the countries, and the continents

@ChadKakashi 2 ай бұрын

0:50 this guy is next level.

@bUtLUtu 2 ай бұрын

10:47 WHAT’S THIS GUY DOING LOL

@lydiakaraiskou1421 25 күн бұрын

5:54 Do you realize that according to that definition Antarctica is not a Continent?

@joaocabral3143 2 ай бұрын

Puerto Rico is not in South America bro.. . 😮

@OnlyFlans42 23 күн бұрын

"China correct, Hong Kong kong.. I'll let it pass" avoiding conflict well! 😉

@jfrancobelge 2 ай бұрын

On a trip in the U.S. years ago, hearing my foreign accent one store employee in Arizona asked where I was from and why I was there. I said "France". She replied: "Oh, you've been to Europe then?". Actually, I live in Europe...

@pixelexi 2 ай бұрын

That’s ‘Merica right there 🇺🇸🦅💥

@SofaMuncher Ай бұрын

Ohh buddy you should quiz in Vancouver Canada I could smoke this test because I am a nerd

@User-nj9ti 2 ай бұрын

Extraño lo de las Américas , porque se enseña que hay 3 ,norte América, sud América y América Central. No tengo a ganas de escribir en inglés

@OddSwiftGoose 2 ай бұрын

dont believe it on all social media

@alexanderhoak 2 ай бұрын

Typically, Central America and North America are combined.

@soulmax6 Ай бұрын

I love how you use the term 'U.S. Americans' indicating that the people from the U.S. doesn't represent whole Americans

@tristanvadimterranova8053 23 күн бұрын

Man, I know a European who thinks he swam in the Indian ocean when he was in Brazil. I even met a guy who was convinced Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines were "Chinese islands". And that dude who told me I had made up the name of Idaho... The truth is that 95% of people suck at geography. Not only Americans. Ps: I'm European.

@lisgyldenhr4327 2 ай бұрын

Actually there are 8 continents. In 2017 scientists from New Zealand found out that Oceania is 2 continents. So now the list of Continents is: Africa, Asia Antartica, Europa, North America, South America, Oceania ( Australia some call it) and Zealandia.

@laineski26 Ай бұрын

This is effin torturous

@CMC007 2 ай бұрын

I had to stop halfway. I was losing brain cells.

@meloman0027 2 ай бұрын

Me too. They are just so fucking stupid. OMG. Like my mom who thinks that Paris is a country, and Africa is one big country too.

@okansiviloglu5296 2 ай бұрын

These people makes me mad unbelieveable

@cs2clips2137 Ай бұрын

11:02 ☠️☠️☠️☠️

@_Shadbolt_ 2 ай бұрын

6:54 pretty sure Cuba is in North America 😅

@_Shadbolt_ 2 ай бұрын

3:36 "I said outside of America" is deliberately misleading though. It's very unusual in English to describe The Americas as "America" so the question is a bit unfair to this kid. The word "America" in the the English language is widely regarded to refer to the USA, whether or not you're American yourself. Speakers of latin languages, especially Spanish, tend not to make the distinction between the 2 two continents, and refer to them both as simply "America" - but you're not speaking Spanish so it's very confusing to ask the question this way. It would be more fair to say "outside of the Americas" or to phrase it even more fairly "outside of North or South America". I'm British and believe me I'm the first to point out the arrogance of US exceptionalism and insularism - but defining North and South America as "America" is, for all practical purposes, linguistically wrong.

@trevora5568 2 ай бұрын

Thank you, I was going to type out basically this but you saved me some time. Using terminology that US Americans (bored teenagers on omegle) don't use, for a video to make them look dumb is just disingenuous

@_Shadbolt_ 2 ай бұрын

That "America" thing really annoys me! I think it's really obvious when there literally isn't another demonym

@bethesdagamer7971 2 ай бұрын

To be fair, “outside America” means outside the U.S. to Americans. Outside North and South America would make more sense to them. But let’s be real, a lot of them would still get it wrong.

@magnifriedisalive Ай бұрын

Wdf all they saying canada is a continent. Im sure thats taught in american schools

@FredericChelmsford Ай бұрын

Hello guys!!! In today's video we are exploring the American education system! But before that, lets have a word with our sponsor, Patrick Star's Rock!!! Patrick: "what is america?"

@CaptainAmerica001 Ай бұрын

*U.S. Education system America is a continent. Plus, anything "American" is from the Continent of America!

@FredericChelmsford Ай бұрын

@@CaptainAmerica001 thats part of the joke lol...

@The_pokemon_guy_ Ай бұрын

how can't americans do the simplest geography tasks 😭

@MShmalamala Ай бұрын

America is often used to mean the US, although you're technically correct when you say Argentina is in America. The term "Americans" is always used to refer to people living in the US. And Cuba is in North America.

@producoesdogabriel2 17 күн бұрын

Dear American friends, in an increasingly interconnected world, understanding global geography is essential for being informed and aware citizens. Knowing countries, cultures, and challenges around the world not only broadens our horizons but also empowers us to contribute meaningfully to a more collaborative and fair future. Let's explore beyond our borders, not just physical ones but also cultural and social ones. Let's dive into the fascinating stories of people around the globe and discover the interconnections that shape our world. Together, we can build bridges of understanding and global solidarity. Let's embark on this journey of discovery and learning so that we can make a difference, not only in our own community but also on the global stage. Let's be inspired by the diversity of our planet and commit to a future where knowledge and mutual understanding are the cornerstones of our society. Let's explore, learn, and grow together! With hope and determination, we will be able to have a higher level of knowledge

@thomasshelby0911 2 ай бұрын

10:46 what the hell broooo

@Dave61tj 2 ай бұрын

4:50 ooh USA 😂😂😂😂😂

@averageshounenenjoyer5131 2 ай бұрын

What happened to Your shorts?

@o_s-24 2 ай бұрын

He moved them to another channel

@lingualizer 2 ай бұрын

Had to move them because my long format videos were/are suffering from the Shorts

@Alex.The.Lionnnnn 2 ай бұрын

You could have said "the Americas" to be fair. They still wouldn't have a damn clue, but it means you don't sound ignorant. 😉😝

@TheGlobalAtlas Ай бұрын

The Caribbean is in North America

@rewae 2 ай бұрын

3:12 179 countries 🤨

@lingualizer 2 ай бұрын

I meant 197

@pw3891 2 ай бұрын

they answer, and I feel ashamed for them

@moonix9797 2 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure there are more reasons why Omegle shut down 😂

@johanna_na 2 ай бұрын

Good lord.... I mean I understand if someone wouldn't remember all 7 continents (for example forgetting Antarctica or not knowing if it's Oceania or Australia) but not knowing what continents are all together is astonishing... And countries... I would forgive if one didn't remember which continent some country is in (for example thinking that Benin would be in Asia) but not knowing any countries is crazy... We were taught all the countries and their capitals in lower grades in school. Goes without saying that I would have forgotten so many of them if I wouldn't study them every now and then. But I guess the educational system in Northern Europe has been a little different. But mark my words, the system is starting to fail. Schools are getting rid of separate classrooms, and instead put all students in the same space divided by curtains. Students can hear what is taught on the other side of the curtain. Students with ADHD and other problems don't get support in a quiet calm space. What is the result? Massive issues in concentration. Hence kids can't focus and can't learn.

@OneeUp1 2 ай бұрын

Very hard watch, teens that don't know where they live is crazy

@hcalo 23 күн бұрын

How many American countries are in The Americas (North and South America)?....

@someone_nowhere 2 ай бұрын

Why are Europe and Asia 2 continents?? I was always taught that they are parts of the Eurasia continent...

@alessandroc.4543 2 ай бұрын

It's because of the huge cultural differences. But it's not wrong to consider them as a single continent.

@LesnikSan 2 ай бұрын

@@alessandroc.4543How it's not wrong? There are no water masses like oceans between Europe and Asia, hence it's one continent

@someone_nowhere 2 ай бұрын

@@alessandroc.4543 i may call it wrong (english is not my native language), but there are two different things: continents and "parts of the world". The last thing is about different cultures and here we have Europe and asia as two different parts. But in terms of continents we can't divide them in two parts

@alessandroc.4543 2 ай бұрын

@@someone_nowhere Yes yes, you're right. By the definition of continent, asia and europe should be eurasia. However, it is convention to consider them as separate continents due to the very different cultures. Conventions in science are definitions for which everyone decides to agree with. This is the case for the separation of europe and asia.

@someone_nowhere 2 ай бұрын

@@alessandroc.4543 is there some document about it? I assume that this differs from country to country. As i sad, in my school it was a mistake and we have a different term for the cultural division of the world