How Do Europe & The United States Compare?

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@General.Knowledge
@General.Knowledge Жыл бұрын
Which other countries should I compare to each other?
@oeldd.tekinium4445
@oeldd.tekinium4445 Жыл бұрын
Japan and China
@oeldd.tekinium4445
@oeldd.tekinium4445 Жыл бұрын
PRC and ROC
@thevicar4120
@thevicar4120 Жыл бұрын
pls do a second part ( love your videos)
@ahojh7368
@ahojh7368 Жыл бұрын
Czech Republic and Slovakia
@jwaj
@jwaj Жыл бұрын
africa and london
@TheRealMjb2k
@TheRealMjb2k Жыл бұрын
The reason people can drive at such a young age in the US is because driving is a necessity in many of those western states. There’s no public transportation in rural South Dakota, so you have drive to do simple things.
@philipdillon83
@philipdillon83 Жыл бұрын
There's piss poor publoc transportation in most major cities as well. Especially in newer western ones that have boomed since the end of WW2.
@SchoolVideosGoHere
@SchoolVideosGoHere Жыл бұрын
Also in rural areas, driving is related to work needs. Many young children work on farms and need the license - not only to go place to place, but also to operate some equipment
@bgorg1
@bgorg1 Жыл бұрын
@@philipdillon83 there is a simple reason - public transport is efficient in areas of condensed population and interconnected by reliable rail. There is no economic principle for mass public transit in cities that don’t have these characteristics
@DieJacke
@DieJacke Жыл бұрын
But in some European countries you can drive at a younger age if you arent alone in the car.
@Racko.
@Racko. Жыл бұрын
U can drive in some European countries at similar ages like in the US Driving is one of most symbolic icon of the US and it’s quite fun, the only shortcoming is transit in rural areas are either bad or just not present due to much of the things that happened back in the 40s as they rose in popularity
@michelleb7399
@michelleb7399 Жыл бұрын
“Sunshine” and “hours of daylight” are not synonymous. Sunny days, or days of sunshine, refers to days when you literally see the sun, as opposed to gray, overcast, or otherwise cloudy/rainy days. Northern Europe appears to have more cloudy/rainy days that the US has on a whole.
@Enyavar1
@Enyavar1 Жыл бұрын
why did you tell them that? Imagine if this simple idea had remained a mystery forever to Mr. Knowledge!
@FluttershyHash
@FluttershyHash Жыл бұрын
But also with "hours of daylight" his assumption would be wrong. During a year it's roughly the same at any point on the globe. But at the equator it's a bit less then at the poles.
@danielb2571
@danielb2571 Жыл бұрын
@@FluttershyHash how do you come to that conclusion? In northern Alaska you can get days where the sun doesn't set, but you also get day of no sunlight. But is that equal? Wouldn't logic tell you that the most sunlight is given between the tropics, thus there definition. So closer to the equator would give more sunlight through out the whole year?
@danielb2571
@danielb2571 Жыл бұрын
That is correct. That's why Arizona has so many hours of daylight, not just because we are further south, but our climate. Even on most of our "rainy" days we see the sun half the day. That's why/where old hotels in Yuma, AZ would give free boarding on the "days the sun don't shine"
@michelleb7399
@michelleb7399 Жыл бұрын
I live in an area that is overcast sometimes for MONTHS on end. We literally do not have sunshine for a good deal of November-March in a typical weather year. As a kid I honestly thought “gray” WAS a version of sky color, same as blue or black. I didn’t realize until i was maybe 9 years old that when I was seeing completely gray “skies” I wasn’t actually seeing the sky. So, I cannot equate hour of sunshine with hours of daylight. Daylight is when the sun is “up” but we only have sunshine if at some point you can actually find the sun in the sky.
@bernarrcoletta7419
@bernarrcoletta7419 Жыл бұрын
Back in the 70’s, when I lived in Italy, I bought wine at 9. My parents would send me down to the local store to pick up a bottle of wine for them.
@DarioCastellarin
@DarioCastellarin Жыл бұрын
That's stil very much a thing in Italy. Legal age is enforced only in places where alcohol is consumed (i.e. a pub or a bar) but not in supermarkets where alcohol is sold by the bottle.
@bernarrcoletta7419
@bernarrcoletta7419 Жыл бұрын
@@DarioCastellarin Thanks. It’s been a long while since I was 18. LOL
@TheBarser
@TheBarser Жыл бұрын
Haha I am from Denmark, and as a kid in the 90s I was send to the store to buy beers and cigerates and in return I got a few kroner to buy candy. Age restrictrion is a rather new thing.
@klaasdeboer8106
@klaasdeboer8106 Жыл бұрын
@@TheBarser Same here in the netherlands, untill quite recently children could buy anything in the shop, and in the eighties, at ourteen years old I could buy alcohol sigarettes and hashish, now phor these things people have to show an ID
@TheBarser
@TheBarser Жыл бұрын
@@klaasdeboer8106 It was much more simple back in the days
@han9488
@han9488 Жыл бұрын
8:00 those maps are measuring two different things. the US’ is measuring % of 18-34 year olds living at home while Europe’s is measuring 25-34 year olds. that’s why america looks so much higher than western europe, it’s taking into account the massive amount of young people who stay at home from 18-25
@bigploppa154
@bigploppa154 Жыл бұрын
the goal of this video is to make the US look bad. we would appreciate it if you would stop pointing out the ways that we skewed the data to do so.
@han9488
@han9488 Жыл бұрын
@@bigploppa154 ? why? wouldn’t you rather have a more factual video
@bigploppa154
@bigploppa154 Жыл бұрын
@@han9488 because we hate the US and dont want to hear anything positive about it
@pieterhulsen9170
@pieterhulsen9170 Жыл бұрын
Yeah and on the europe map you see on the left side that usa has 13.9% for that data
@Maur0dm
@Maur0dm Жыл бұрын
I think you should have focused more on either Europe as a continent or the E.U because the video flips between talking about the E.U and Europe making it a bit confusing
@williamsmeds1368
@williamsmeds1368 Жыл бұрын
Well the majority of European countries are in the EU. I don't think the EU and the remainder of Europe would differ that much. (Could be wrong idk.)
@eVill420
@eVill420 Жыл бұрын
@@williamsmeds1368 outside of EU is way poorer
@puderkman
@puderkman Жыл бұрын
@@eVill420 Not really. Some of the poorest countries in Europe are in the EU, while some of the richest aren't.
@quanbrooklynkid7776
@quanbrooklynkid7776 Жыл бұрын
@@eVill420 I ain't know that
@themeltedchocolate
@themeltedchocolate Жыл бұрын
@@eVill420 that's incorrect. Ask Norway or Switzerland.
@wansper9297
@wansper9297 Жыл бұрын
For the living at parents house thing I think that has a lot to do with the group that was looked at, 18-34 and 25-34 is a big difference
@dilligan23
@dilligan23 Жыл бұрын
I totally agree because on the European map it said 13.9% of people in the U.S. aged 25-34 live at their parents house
@vascorodrigues18
@vascorodrigues18 Жыл бұрын
@@dilligan23 also also people Between 18-25 are mostly in college but their official address (for easier management) is still their family's adress. on my case I rented an appartment in the capital (I grow up in the rural areas) when I started working but my adress would still be my parent's, only when I got a definive house did I updated my adress. most of the people I know around my age did the same as me even when we do the sensus the question is the "fiscal adress".
@listen1st267
@listen1st267 Жыл бұрын
Yeah I agree. These two maps shouldn't have been compared
@plumebrisee6206
@plumebrisee6206 Жыл бұрын
Yeah ,for France ,50% of 18-29 years old still live at their parents house .
@spooky.-
@spooky.- Жыл бұрын
Who tf moving out at 18 lol
@carlomontecarlo7881
@carlomontecarlo7881 Жыл бұрын
In Italy we tend to live with our parents for longer, but the numbers may be lower than suggested. If you go to university in a different city, you won't change your residential address because families benefit from fiscal advantages (university fees are deductible and some universities will lower the amount your fees, depending on the number of people living in your family unit). So you're *domiciled* somewhere, but stats only record your residential address for fiscal purposes. In addition to that, we tend to own our properties. Rents are high in some cities (Rome, Milan, Venice, Bologna and Florence) but quite low in other cities like Turin and Trieste, so that also plays a factor. That being said, the main problem in Italy is youth unemployment & the high number of NEETS. But again, this varies from region to region. Southern Italy has very high unemployment rates (Sicily 17,8% in Q4 2020, Campania 17,2% and Calabria 16,5%), so people are less likely to move out if they have no money. In the North it's a bit different: unemployment in Lombardy (where 1/6 of the Italian population lives) stood at 5,3% in Q4 2020. The lowest unemployment rates were recorded in the North East of Italy: in the Trento province (4,3%) and Veneto (4,7%) respectively.
@janiseikkula1336
@janiseikkula1336 Жыл бұрын
When you compared armies you forgot that Finnish army is about 280k and with reserve 900k.
@ericktellez7632
@ericktellez7632 Жыл бұрын
@@benchoflemons398 no it doesn’t, the draft isn’t a thing anymore, the US army is 100% volunteer.
@ericktellez7632
@ericktellez7632 Жыл бұрын
@@benchoflemons398 On January 27, 1973, the Department of Defense announced that it was suspending the draft, and the Military Selective Service Act expired that June. What you are talking about is the selective service system that can be avoided by conscientious objection, simply not agreeing with war or religious reasons, thats not a draft mate
@ericktellez7632
@ericktellez7632 Жыл бұрын
@@benchoflemons398 that’s 👏 not 👏 a👏 draft my boy, South Korea has an actual draft. You registering doesn’t suddenly equals a draft.
@ericktellez7632
@ericktellez7632 Жыл бұрын
@@benchoflemons398 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
@leaderofthenewbencrusades746
@leaderofthenewbencrusades746 Жыл бұрын
@@ericktellez7632We are a volunteer army until we get into anything serious, but even with us still being volunteer, it's still a draft, we just don't actively use it, but can be in case of emergency. South Korea just actively uses it as norm, where we don't, just different systems for it since we are not currently bordering a country such as North Korea. They can 100% call you into the military if they so choose at anything they deem important enough, you are basically just untrained reserve.
@Gadolinium64
@Gadolinium64 Жыл бұрын
Many climate factors. One example I want to point out is humidity. You could see that the Southwest USA has a lot of sunlight. Even though California is coastal, the air in that area as a whole is very dry, meaning that there is likely less average cloud cover. Wet forests and water from lakes fill the northeast, giving them more frequent cloud coverage
@koseku3
@koseku3 Жыл бұрын
why is humidity lower in southwest usa?
@Silence_stp
@Silence_stp Жыл бұрын
@@koseku3 because of the sea, there are ocean current
@Silence_stp
@Silence_stp Жыл бұрын
@@koseku3 California is on the hot side of a ocean crurent, Europe is too in the hot side of a ocean current it's the reason why it's warmer in Europe than in the us even though they're in the same latitude
@koseku3
@koseku3 Жыл бұрын
@@Silence_stp i dont get it. i thought it was because mountains block clouds. i am from turkey and all coast are very humid in turkey but inner anatolia is very dry due to mountains around inner anatolia and high altidude of inner anatolia
@eVill420
@eVill420 Жыл бұрын
@@koseku3 it's not a simple thing, there are many factors that make a place dry or wet
@sillyjellyfish2421
@sillyjellyfish2421 Жыл бұрын
About young people living with parents in Slovakia - it's very much cultural. Firstly, renting isn't really a thing around here and only people like workers or groups of students in universities rent, mostly in big cities. Those who do, while technically living out of home, are still registered on their parent's adress until they buy something of their own. This may take a while since banks only rent to people with long term job contracts which usually happens after 3-5 years after the person starts working. However, the majority of young people lives with their parents at least until they have their own children, at which point the old place may be a little cramped so they move out. There is also the thing with many of our houses build with the intention of being multigenerational, that is housing 2 or more nuclear families at the same time. People use this as an insurance that a) there are always grandparents looking after grandkids and b) once grandparents are old, there is at least 1 child (now probably middle aged) to take care of them. This is especially common in rural areas and we have more than half of all people living in villages so...
@plebulus4355
@plebulus4355 Жыл бұрын
Yeah one thing to consider is culture, in the US it's highly frowned apon to live with your parents, and getting out of the nest is seen as a necessity, while in Europe some places have more tight and complex family structures
@quanbrooklynkid7776
@quanbrooklynkid7776 Жыл бұрын
@@plebulus4355 you are right
@louvendran7273
@louvendran7273 Жыл бұрын
The rest of the undeveloped world operates like this.
@louvendran7273
@louvendran7273 Жыл бұрын
@@vardekpetrovic9716 so you are old from 40-90. Thats longer than the rest of the age percentiles combined. 🤦🏾‍♂️
@AhimtarHoN
@AhimtarHoN Жыл бұрын
Wait, it's not like this elsewhere in the world? It all just sounds so reasonable I didn't even think it's a cultural thing
@BucketEarthSociety
@BucketEarthSociety Жыл бұрын
Americans: You can Drink at 21 7 year old me in czechia: How About I Do Anyway?
@fernandosoares8336
@fernandosoares8336 Жыл бұрын
Obrigado pelos seus vídeos. They are always interesting to see. I m looking forward to more videos to come!
@teoefthimiou7016
@teoefthimiou7016 Жыл бұрын
I can say as a Greek that the reason for the % of people living *at home* is in fact mostly cultural and less economic (which still play's a role but not a huge one) . Families here are much closer together than you might think .
@gumzy3000
@gumzy3000 Жыл бұрын
I live in Canada and the Greeks here are similar. Very family oriented and the kids stay with the parents until marriage/kids usually. Its the way it should be and its becoming more common amongst other cultures too.
@TullaRask
@TullaRask Жыл бұрын
@@m.dewylde5287 Yes I totally agree. It's very good for youngsters to learn to manage on their own and take responsibility for their own mistakes. In Norway young people share apartment with friends or rent a room in a family apartment together with people they don't know.
@goatgamer001
@goatgamer001 Жыл бұрын
That's both good and bad, it depends
@goatgamer001
@goatgamer001 Жыл бұрын
@@gumzy3000 well greeks outside greece are more stuck together than the ones inside it because its unusual
@sudenur9452
@sudenur9452 Жыл бұрын
Yep, we are similar. I’m Turkish and our culture is close
@davidverkmann297
@davidverkmann297 Жыл бұрын
Hours of sunlight/ year majorly depends on the amount of rain, sincd rainclouds cover the sun. This is why the oceanic regions of europe such as northern france england and the netherlanda have a lower amount of sunlight
@lcemobile1518
@lcemobile1518 Жыл бұрын
The netherlands do not border an ocean
@bytesandbikes
@bytesandbikes Жыл бұрын
Latitude has very little direct effect. Short winter days are balanced by long summer days
@brodoxl
@brodoxl Жыл бұрын
@@lcemobile1518 *does, and The Netherlands technically borders an ocean, because of the Dutch Antillies, but the mainland only borders the North Sea.
@TheDanzau
@TheDanzau Жыл бұрын
@@lcemobile1518 yes it does :)
@whitetubby1824
@whitetubby1824 Жыл бұрын
@@brodoxl It borders France also but it's in saint martin island
@bizar1270
@bizar1270 Жыл бұрын
I don’t find the comparison of a continent with a country valid. The closest to United States is the European Union not Europe. EU countries have sometimes extreme differences with non-EU European countries.
@lubusbtch
@lubusbtch Жыл бұрын
An interesting fact to note, The travel distance between Paris and Moscow, is shorter then the travel distance between Chicago and L.A.
@TheNordicCat
@TheNordicCat Жыл бұрын
And the travel distance from Chicago to LA ist shorter than Lissabon to Tromso? What is your point?
@ashutosh.1312.
@ashutosh.1312. Жыл бұрын
Suggestions for Part two 1. No. of National parks. 2. Avg. Size of a house. 3. Percentage of land dedicated for monuments. 4. No. Of ports/air ports. 5. Comparison of water ways?
@marianamauricio
@marianamauricio Жыл бұрын
these are really interesting suggestions!! now im definitely curious about those :p
@General.Knowledge
@General.Knowledge Жыл бұрын
Good ideas! Thanks
@bas13161j
@bas13161j Жыл бұрын
National parks are not really a thing in most European countries
@quanbrooklynkid7776
@quanbrooklynkid7776 Жыл бұрын
@@bas13161j I ain't even know that
@DaRealKakarroto
@DaRealKakarroto Жыл бұрын
I suggest to include a tourism comparison.
@dameanebulia
@dameanebulia Жыл бұрын
Warm greetings and much love from France to all my European brothers and sisters and all our US American friends ! ❣️
@janvisser4132
@janvisser4132 Жыл бұрын
That is awfully cheerful. Just a warning, this is just because I am extremely pissed at our 'European Brothers' at the moment, and I need to vent and show the real face of the EU. Please don't let it kill your optimism. Don't read further if you don't feel like it. There are EU regulations about the amount of Natural Parks (Natura 2000) a country needs to have. Moreover, there are strict regulations about the amount of nitrogen products companies and farmers can produce near those Natural Parks, for environmental reasons. My country, The Netherlands, is extremely densily populated, and almost all the area is used for farms, companies and houses. That all produces way too much nitrogen products, ammonia etc., at least according to the EU. The weird part is that less densily populated countries like Germany and France don't have that problem, the EU does not account for population density whatsoever. The Netherlands knew that, and went easy with those rules. Until 2019, when some environmental radicals abused our justice system. From that day no new projects that produced nitrogen could be started. That mend no more farms, factories, but also infrastructure and houses. It brought our society to a standstill, and caused a gigantic housing crisis. Today the government has decided to solve the problem by disowning around 50% of the farmers in the country. All their hard work, farms that have been in families for centuries gone. The outcry is enormous of course, all the farmers will besiege the capital, governmental buildings etc in the next days with their big machines, they have done that before but on a much smaller scale. And it's not the first time we get screwed over by the EU, they already destroyed our fishing fleet too. One of these days the situation is gonna boil over, and the majority of people will want to leave the EU. As an Economist I am not happy with it, but the EU is slowly destroying my country, that is gonna get a response. I get there are environmental issues we need to fix, but not like this. Not by completely destroying the lives of thousands of families, while the big companies get a free pass, and masses of people enjoy their polluting flights to luxury vacations. I am sorry, but I am so angry, I had to show the real face of the European elite that destroys the smaller countries with their idiotic and way to general rules.
@osc_dk2870
@osc_dk2870 Жыл бұрын
@@janvisser4132 They were greeting Americans and fellow Europeans, not praising the EU for being a fantastic and unstoppable union with no problems whatsoever. I'm very sorry about what you said, but you don't have to respond in that way.
@MysliusLT
@MysliusLT Жыл бұрын
Bonjour la France❣
@olemai1531
@olemai1531 Жыл бұрын
Bonjour, greetings from Germany. 🇲🇫🇩🇪
@edombre4637
@edombre4637 Жыл бұрын
oh please - the average american knows nothing about europe, and doesn't care about europe - those that do will mock the french, italians, greeks, etc, and only somewhat care about germany and the uk. anyway, nice of you to reach out and say hi
@McJibbin
@McJibbin Жыл бұрын
Part 2 please!! great video
@brianh9358
@brianh9358 Жыл бұрын
I think a comparison of the benefits that governments provide in Europe versus the United States would be interesting. I know for example that yes family income is higher in the U.S. but that is impacted significantly by having to purchase your own health insurance. Lots of vacation and family leave are also common in Europe, etc. So there are more collective benefits to living in European society. Just thought an examination of those differences might be interesting.
@seanthe100
@seanthe100 Жыл бұрын
Most health insurance in the US is actually through the employer. For instance employers pay an additional $1.2 trillion for employees and their families healthcare winch is on top of salaries. All individuals pay about $800 Billon so American employees technically received an additional $400 Billon for employers thats considered salary.
@buy_large_mansions
@buy_large_mansions Жыл бұрын
Why is the suicide rate higher in Europe then?
@olila7713
@olila7713 Жыл бұрын
@@buy_large_mansions that has nothing at all to do with European benefits 😂
@buy_large_mansions
@buy_large_mansions Жыл бұрын
@@olila7713 yes it does.😂
@hurri7720
@hurri7720 Жыл бұрын
@@buy_large_mansions , not sure about that, nor am I sure about what you include in "Europe". But one thing is for sure and that is that the murder rate is higher in the USA.
@nicolasschoovaerts630
@nicolasschoovaerts630 Жыл бұрын
1€ = $1.07 … not $1.7 And sunlight hours are not really linked to latitude, but to climate (cloud cover or not, fog…). Moreover, even the number of daylight hours (moment between sunrise and sunset) over a full year is roughly the same everywhere. On the equator, the length of the day will be almost identical (and about 12h) year round. The further away from the equator, the bigger the day length variation between summer and winter. But it averages out.
@justinmitchell3822
@justinmitchell3822 Жыл бұрын
Messing up the exchange rate that much isn't a little mistake. More like, "the person making the video has no experience with at least one of those two currencies."
@jan-lukas
@jan-lukas Жыл бұрын
He actually SAID 1.07, but 1.7 was written...
@TheBarser
@TheBarser Жыл бұрын
About the clouds it is much about the gulf stream which is also why europe is so warm compared to its rather low altitude.
@TheChrisSimpson
@TheChrisSimpson Жыл бұрын
Hours of sun is a combination of latitude, average weather, elevation, and mountains. Consider that a village in a valley that runs north to south between two tall mountains east and west of it will receive less sunlight than standing at the peak of either due to mountains blocking it. Even if the mountains weren't blocking the valley (i.e. the valley was running east to west), the total daily sunlight for the valley will be lower than at the peaks. You can see 2 sunsets at the Burj Khalifa by watching sunset at the base and then taking the elevator to the top. Calculating sunrise/sunset times is actually super complicated because of that... Simply changing altitude will change it (My sunrise/sunset is different in my 4th floor apartment than my 1st floor neighbors below me), so when you see times you're usually seeing an average based on a median elevation with no obstructions. Maps like that were most likely made in a different manner, by actually collecting data at physical locations and averaging it (which would help account for the weather variable as well as the elevation/obstruction variables)
@TheRealRealMClovin
@TheRealRealMClovin Жыл бұрын
The age restriction thing of driving, consent, alchohol and other stuff in the US has always been weird and mind boggling thing to me XD
@Xezlec
@Xezlec Жыл бұрын
But the map says US has LESS age restrictions on driving than Europe does.
@tonttu7979
@tonttu7979 Жыл бұрын
@@Xezlec thats exactly the point. I know it has to do with less public transport in the states but its wild that americans can drive at 16, own guns at such a young age but cant buy alcohol before 21. In germany for example you can drink legally at 16
@tonttu7979
@tonttu7979 Жыл бұрын
@@cleantube8014 im more weirded out by how available guns are in the states than anything else, and also 16 might be young but there'a a point to be made that having access to something like that prevents a lot of illegal drinking and giving kids stronger alcohol
@craig7405
@craig7405 11 ай бұрын
@@tonttu7979 the gun culture comes from the 2nd amendment. even though i think its a good idea to have guns accepted in our culture, people do get them way too easily
@Supkev96
@Supkev96 Жыл бұрын
Hours of sun definitely has a direction correlation with weather. The southwest U.S. is a desert and has very little rain resulting in a lot of sun time. Europe being on the other end of the gulf Stream definitely plays an impact on their climate. U.S. also has two mountain ranges with a jet stream that comes out of the west and goes through both while Europe's Alps going across instead of up and down like in the U.S.
@punchnazis3498
@punchnazis3498 3 ай бұрын
The southwest does have large desert areas, but it's not all desert. The following climate types can also be found in the southwest: Mediterranean, arid/semi-arid, humid continental/subtropical, oceanic, and alpine/subarctic/tundra (at the highest elevations).
@Stant123
@Stant123 Жыл бұрын
4:45 Driving in the US is allowed at 16, and earlier depending on how young you are allowed to get a learner's permit. The map data you are looking at is "Unsupervised Driving". That is the difference in the numbers. Where I live (California), you can go to the Department of Motor Vehicles and get your learner's permit at 15. This is considered "supervised driving" since you must have someone over 21 with a valid driver's license in the vehicle with you if you are on a public road while you are learning, getting caught driving solo will get you blocked from getting your license until you are 18. At 16, you can test and get your license with the DMV and be able to drive unsupervised, but if you are going to drive, you are not allowed to have anyone under 18 (a minor) in the vehicle with you unless there is someone 18+ (a legal adult) there as well. At 18, it's completely unrestricted as you are considered an adult and responsible for everything you do. In New Jersey's case, even though you can legally drive at 16, they still want someone who is an adult in the car with you "supervising" for an extra year. Idaho, Montana, North/South Dakota, and Arizona are pretty empty states population wise, so people are a lot more spread out, and lots of farming occurs there, so younger 'drivers' are allowed to drive unsupervised on public streets, considering many times it would likely be either slow moving farm tractors or an otherwise mostly unused road. In Arizona's case, dirt bikes or quads or something out in the desert is also extremely common and supervision is likely on their own rather than sharing the same seat, so to avoid technicalities in the law causing problems that are unnecessary, you get a lower age. South Carolina, I would assume it's also because much of the land is farming like the others, but someone from there would know better than I.
@Stormix9
@Stormix9 Жыл бұрын
cant say for other country but in france you can start to learn how to drive at 15 (only rules ) but after that you can drive with an adult who has a drivers license but at 18 you can drive alone
@jan-lukas
@jan-lukas Жыл бұрын
This thing of supervised driving is really common, here in Germany you can drive with supervision from 17 and without one year later, though you can drive mopeds or something like that with 16 I think, don't know the exact rules
@magnificus8581
@magnificus8581 Жыл бұрын
The US definitely has an advantage in tanks driven by cats.
@ivanhegedus2030
@ivanhegedus2030 9 ай бұрын
lovely comparison, nicely done!
@chickenfist1554
@chickenfist1554 Жыл бұрын
One of the major difference between the two is that in Europe words are spelt and pronounced correctly 😆
@thegrumpydragon7601
@thegrumpydragon7601 Жыл бұрын
Lmao 😂, I was in Paris and got wine 🍷 And handed them my ID and they just looked at me. “Why you giving me this “
@idccc4449
@idccc4449 Жыл бұрын
the reason a lot more people in europe live at home with their parents still after they've turned 18 is because it's more of an american culture to move out right at that age. i can't speak for all but in other cultures you usually move out when you get married and moving out isn't as rushed - it's not frowned upon and it's normal, doesn't have to do with finances
@lucinae8510
@lucinae8510 Жыл бұрын
Living in the UK, I live with my parents and my two older brothers who now work full time and now their wives live and work here. They want to move out eventually, but they're too fond of where we live to rush anything. I do feel a little under pressure to do the same, but it's mostly from watching too much American and Japanese media. Most people I tell about this situation or I read about are happy to have big, functioning family.
@italia689
@italia689 Жыл бұрын
Things have definitely been changing in the U.S, but it is for economic reasons.
@itshenry8977
@itshenry8977 Жыл бұрын
It is a little about The finances lets not be lyin
@nero9506
@nero9506 Жыл бұрын
@@itshenry8977 Also, but not always. I've literally seen kids in the US do 3 jobs and almost live in the street just because they had the "need" to move out of their parent's house. It makes no sense, just do a regular job, get a degree if you want and save the money while you can. This "gtfo my house at 18" culture seems widespread in the US, at least from our point of view.
@listen1st267
@listen1st267 Жыл бұрын
​@@nero9506 it's really a case by case situation. Culturally I think nearly every young adult would like their own place, but many financially can't afford it so they are forced to live with their parents during and/or after college. On the flip side, there are others from homes where it's either inconvenient or unhealthy for them to stay with their parents any longer and those are the people who would do anything possible to move out at 18, including working 3 jobs. I even had some high school friends who got their own apartment at 17 because of some domestic abuse situation. They worked crazy hours and could barely afford a car but left anyway
@barumbadum
@barumbadum Жыл бұрын
Great video. Respect!
@swampfoxIX
@swampfoxIX Жыл бұрын
I was stationed in Germany in the military for roughly 3 years right after high school during my USAF enlistment....then returned to Germany for another 5 years as a DoD civilian shortly thereafter; after college. During my cumulative total 8 years there, I don't recall anyone ever checking IDs to purchase alcohol, or to get into the bars/clubs. There were technically "rules" in Baden-Württemberg and Hesse--like after 2300 hours anyone under 18 needed to leave the bar/club/pub--but from what I've seen, it was never enforced. And this was as recent as 2019.
@Genervilz
@Genervilz Жыл бұрын
because many of the laws of the European states work as a guarantee. For example "you can't do this" doesn't mean you can't do it anyway. But if someone finds out about it, then a sanction goes into effect, but normally no one checks in advance. This applies to almost all fields, except of course the most serious crimes. No one will ever ask you "how old are you?" to buy something, with very rare exceptions. And if you think about it, even driving a car can be done without being 18, just you don't have to get caught. The point is: European laws are almost never absolute prohibitions, but protections and guarantees. Indeed, this is how the French envisioned the world in 1789. Edit: the same applies to pedestrian crossings, which are not always respected in europe, and no one has ever received a penalty for crossing the road outside the pedestrian crossing, while in america it is rather taboo.
@Andarus
@Andarus Жыл бұрын
They only check it if you look way too young. But I bought Alcohol at 12-13 without anyone asking.
@kriegshammer2161
@kriegshammer2161 Жыл бұрын
Im German.In a bar a 12-13 year old gets normally never beer or wine .Its a big risk,cost mutch mutch money if the police c this.A 13-14 years old ,look like 15-16 can have luck.Beer and Wine is legal 16+ . At smaller beer fests ,at lakes and so , or smaller music events 14-15 year old have a 85% chance no one check the age.Start drinking beer is normal in Germany at age 14.Most start at 15.Start drinking harder stuff like Vodka or Whiskey is normal at 16.Legal at 18.Most 16-19 year old teens drink about 90% beer and 10% hard stuff.
@zdavis4222
@zdavis4222 Жыл бұрын
I don't know how recently you lived in Germany but here in the UK there has been a lot of tightening up as regards checking up on under-18s buying alcohol in the last 10 years or so. I have seen people challenged in supermarkets because the retailers can now receive hefty fines for selling alcohol to minors. One of my friends was challenged in a supermarket as being under age a couple of years ago when he was 34 - his wife thought this was hilarious!
@PARK-sy3tf
@PARK-sy3tf Жыл бұрын
Both definitely have their pros and cons, but are both great places to call home.
@bughenifon7145
@bughenifon7145 Жыл бұрын
Based
@PARK-sy3tf
@PARK-sy3tf Жыл бұрын
@@bughenifon7145 it’s true I am quite based lol
@PARK-sy3tf
@PARK-sy3tf Жыл бұрын
@DropkicktheDecepticon Europe is just as bad in most aspects, they may have better public transit, but that’s mainly because not as many people there own cars and all of their countries are much smaller so they’re not needed as much. Also if you think the US has a toxic culture, France and the Uk are just as bad if not worse. While our basic education is different than other places, it’s not necessarily bad, I’m doing extremely well currently and my good friend from Denmark says American education is leagues better than his. We’re also home to most of the world’s best collages. Our pollution though, I’ll give you that. California especially is extremely smoggy and we need to be better.. Also it’s not that we don’t matter until we turn 18, it’s mainly just a cultural thing and it’s very similar in the UK and EU, along with most of the developed world. Sorry, I’m not trying to turn this into an argument I just wanted to share my side of the story.
@Itza-Me
@Itza-Me Жыл бұрын
@@PARK-sy3tf no
@user-rk3ds2hu9y
@user-rk3ds2hu9y Жыл бұрын
@DropkicktheDecepticon woah bucko do ur research our education is actually pretty good
@matthiasb.p.8834
@matthiasb.p.8834 Жыл бұрын
I think one of the reasons why the US gets more sunlight is that there are more clouds in Europe because of the gulf stream
@bigploppa154
@bigploppa154 Жыл бұрын
europe also has significantly worse air pollution. im no environmental science major but id assume that could affect things
@liszters8935
@liszters8935 Жыл бұрын
@@bigploppa154 no it doesn't, air pollution doesn't form clouds atnall, it's not as bad as in Beijing for example. The real reasons for less sunlight are clouds because there are simply more clouds in general over europe
@bigploppa154
@bigploppa154 Жыл бұрын
@@liszters8935 fair enough. however i cant tell if your “no it doesnt” is in reference to me stating that europe has worse air pollution or suggesting that it may affect sunlight. if it was the former, im not wrong, europe absolutely has significantly worse air pollution.
@nepdep1945
@nepdep1945 Жыл бұрын
The gulf stream also affects the East Coast of the US(hence why the beaches there are so warm). I think this is why the East Coast gets comparable sunlight to European nations like Spain that share the same latitude.
@spugelo359
@spugelo359 Жыл бұрын
@@bigploppa154 Go visit Finland or some other Northern European countries. You might just get to know what clean air is for the first time.
@CatCahilhu
@CatCahilhu Жыл бұрын
5:38 In Portugal u can buy any alcohol when you are 18, there's not any alcohol that u can only buy at 20. The info in the video is incorrect! U used to be able to buy beer and wine at 16 and the rest at 18 some years ago but now everything is 18. (Some people can still buy beer and soft drinks without them asking your id, so they dont care as much when it comes to lower % drinks, unless you are buying a lot of it.)
@andreasnilsson4496
@andreasnilsson4496 Жыл бұрын
This is a really good video!
@americansmark
@americansmark Жыл бұрын
Elevation and topography have a lot to do with it. My dad grew up in Harlan, Kentucky. Despite being in the midwestern US, Harlan hollers often only have visible sun from 10am to 3pm due to the mountains that surround the valley community on both the east and west.
@williamsmeds1368
@williamsmeds1368 Жыл бұрын
The map in the thumbnail is a bit odd... Czechia and Slovakia are one country again. Kaliningrad has been annexed by Poland. And vojvodina declared independence from Serbia.
@plorabare
@plorabare Жыл бұрын
Czechoslovakia
@emib6599
@emib6599 Жыл бұрын
I don't see the problem 🤷 that map is clearly better than reality
@cautarepvp2079
@cautarepvp2079 Жыл бұрын
kaliningrad is part of Russia
@Alexandru1996_
@Alexandru1996_ Жыл бұрын
And Scotland is separated from UK :))
@teadrinker6563
@teadrinker6563 Жыл бұрын
And the UK is part of an EU comparison video
@ulibohm8096
@ulibohm8096 Жыл бұрын
great video - thanks - I love this
@thats_guip
@thats_guip Жыл бұрын
Great video!
@minesaftat3158
@minesaftat3158 Жыл бұрын
5:26 i'm austrian and with 16 you can vote by each election from the major, chancellor to the president and idk if i dont understand the first map but also in austria you can get the driving license when you reach the 17th age
@perry5062
@perry5062 Жыл бұрын
Also in Germany, but you have to drive with an adult with a driver's license, if I remember right. I assume that it's the same in Austria. As others mentioned, the map for the US and Europe are probably for unsupervised driving.
@minesaftat3158
@minesaftat3158 Жыл бұрын
@@perry5062 german: also bei uns ist es so das man mit 15,5 jahren anfangen kann und dann die fahrstunden mit einem erwachsen fahren muss aber ab 17 kann man schon alleine fahren English: in austria we could start the license when you are 15,5 years old, then you have to drive with an adult to reach 3000km to take the exam and if you finish the license(and be 17 years old) you can drive without an adult
@ignisdeus1142
@ignisdeus1142 Жыл бұрын
I'm from South Dakota. We can drive that early, but you have to drive with another licensed driver for the first 6 months. It was originally so that the farm kids could drive the machinery to help around the farm.
@arolemaprarath6615
@arolemaprarath6615 Жыл бұрын
Nice. Which place do u think is better? Miami or Europe?
@haechiwr
@haechiwr Жыл бұрын
@@arolemaprarath6615 100% Miami, because of Florida man
@Enyavar1
@Enyavar1 Жыл бұрын
@@arolemaprarath6615 For ordinary citizens to live there, most countries of Europe should be preferable to Miami, except for Hungary, Poland, Belarus, Turkey, Russia and sadly Ukraine right now.
@annesofiehommels5928
@annesofiehommels5928 Жыл бұрын
In multiple countries in Europe like the Netherlands you can learn how to drive at the age of 16, but at 17 you are allowed to drive but with a special person until you are 18
@late8641
@late8641 Жыл бұрын
In Finland, we have compulsory military service and our reserve is 900 000. That's more than France, UK and Italy, the three top ranking militaries in this video, combined.
@user-ql1jv1dw8s
@user-ql1jv1dw8s Жыл бұрын
Interestingly in the UK, for Westminster elections the voting age is 18, but for Welsh Parliament (and Scottish I think?) the voting age is 16, so it varies dependent on which national parliament.
@jan-lukas
@jan-lukas Жыл бұрын
This was also noted on the map, yeah
@krashd
@krashd Жыл бұрын
The Tories are terrified of letting 16 and 17 year olds vote since they are the kids who are going to inherit the country that is currently being raped silly by Dishi Richi and the Eton billionaires club.
@brucesi
@brucesi Жыл бұрын
8:40 - It's odd, the maps showing the percent of young people living home... The Europe map has a notation for USA at 13.9%, which is far different than what the USA map portrays. Edit - I just noticed that the USA map includes 18-24 year olds and the Europe map does not. So not an apples to apples comparison.
@alterbr33d
@alterbr33d Жыл бұрын
18 Includes high school students, and almost all high school students are still living at home.
@kentagent6343
@kentagent6343 Жыл бұрын
He's not making these maps. I think he found the most similar maps he could find for all of these subjects. I agree that he should've mentioned this pretty big difference in age gap though.
@Ventraks
@Ventraks Жыл бұрын
18-34
@James-ep2bx
@James-ep2bx Жыл бұрын
1. Seems to have left Alaska out of the hrs of son comparison, though theoretically it's hrs of sun may still average out higher with its very sort winter days being off set bay longer summer days 2. I think a surprisingly informative comparison point would be the level of autonomy of the constituent parts, as many fail to understand exactly how much say the states actually have, after all they still can have the right to have independent military's, and even in a limited manner partake in international diplomacy.
@Slalu1503
@Slalu1503 Жыл бұрын
In Switzerland you can buy cigarettes in some shops at age 16 but they are mostly like little village shops. And from canton to canton they are other age limits, some of the cantons don’t even have an age limit, so technically you could buy cigarettes at age 10. Supermarkets and shops in rural areas sell cigarettes at age 18. Beer and wine is purchasable at age 16 in mostly every canton of Switzerland and the high percentage stuff like whiskey or brandy you can buy at age 18. Fun fact: to import cigarettes into Switzerland from other countries, when you come by plane for example, you only have to be 17.
@josephharrison5639
@josephharrison5639 Жыл бұрын
From seattle area, the reason the Pacific Northwest gets less sun is because we constantly get clouds coming in from the ocean from October to may, what my family calls cave season. South Dakota let’s you get people drive cause there’s so few people there, and often times states will allow kids 13 or younger to drive farm trucks on public roads to get from one section of a farm to another
@arolemaprarath6615
@arolemaprarath6615 Жыл бұрын
Which one do u prefer? New York or Europe?
@josephharrison5639
@josephharrison5639 Жыл бұрын
@@arolemaprarath6615 I’ve never lived In either can’t be a fair judge
@arolemaprarath6615
@arolemaprarath6615 Жыл бұрын
@@josephharrison5639 if I'm honest, New York is just different. Tall gorgeous buildings is just amazing. Europe's buildings basically copied them afte New York's architecture
@josephharrison5639
@josephharrison5639 Жыл бұрын
@@arolemaprarath6615 honestly I’d rather live in the middle of nowhere
@arolemaprarath6615
@arolemaprarath6615 Жыл бұрын
@@josephharrison5639 Where do you live? 😊
@TheYaq
@TheYaq Жыл бұрын
i love these vids
@punkemoandy
@punkemoandy Жыл бұрын
This video might confuse a few people as some will not be aware that the UK is not part of the EU, but still part of the European continent.
@barrysteven5964
@barrysteven5964 Жыл бұрын
23 European countries are not part of the EU. In western Europe Iceland, Norway, the UK, Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco and Switzerland are not members. Further east you have Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ukraine and many others.
@xjaiva
@xjaiva Жыл бұрын
it is kinda interesting how similar one nation is to an entire continent.
@Racko.
@Racko. Жыл бұрын
The geography itself is mind blowing at best, it’s almost as large as the European continent without Russia added
@Silence_stp
@Silence_stp Жыл бұрын
Actually Europe is a peninsula an asian peninsula
@eVill420
@eVill420 Жыл бұрын
@@Silence_stp North America is a South American peninsula, you just don't want to admit it
@dinamosflams
@dinamosflams Жыл бұрын
@@eVill420 thank you. its true
@maxwarboy3625
@maxwarboy3625 Жыл бұрын
the anglosphere is bigger than russia.. just saying
@benjaminphelps561
@benjaminphelps561 Жыл бұрын
4:50, the reason south dakota is so low, at least to my understanding across the state line; is that its so farmers kids can run the tractors and other heavy machinery needed for farming
@Hodoss
@Hodoss Жыл бұрын
2:00 Most of Europe is on the same latitudes as Canada, the Mediterranean is on the same latitudes as the US. So regarding yearly hours of sunlight it makes sense. A part of Northern Europe is in the arctic, with no night in the middle of Summer, and no day in the middle of Winter.
@toastmigraton
@toastmigraton Жыл бұрын
About voting age: In Germany one can vote for the "Landtag" at the age of 16. There are a lot of discussions at the moment to even lower the age limit for federal voting also to 16 years.
@lioneldemun6033
@lioneldemun6033 Жыл бұрын
Next thing babies will be allowed to vote in your country
@br3ak_
@br3ak_ Жыл бұрын
That's weird. 99% of
@bytesandbikes
@bytesandbikes Жыл бұрын
Voting age in the UK varies, in Wales most elections are now open to 16+
@mysteriousDSF
@mysteriousDSF Жыл бұрын
2:06 interesting fact: the region of Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon in among the least sunny regions in the world, coming right after The Faroe Islands and Iceland. Yes, London is a sunnier place than coastal Cameroon. I'm not an expert but yeah, the weather there is almost constantly overcast.
@bughenifon7145
@bughenifon7145 Жыл бұрын
Cap
@mysteriousDSF
@mysteriousDSF Жыл бұрын
@@bughenifon7145 yearly average sunshine hours in: Malabo, Equatorial Guinea: 1,176 London, England: 1,633 Edinburgh, Scotland: 1,427 (even Scotland gets more sun than Equatorial Guinea!) Tórshavn, Faroe Islands: 870 (lowest in the world) Source: Wikipedia
@MagnusMoerkoereJohannesen
@MagnusMoerkoereJohannesen Жыл бұрын
@@mysteriousDSF I can vouch for the lack of sunlight in Tórshavn. Skin colours range from transparent to sickly pale, with the occasional boiled-lobster-red on the rare occasions the sun penetrates the cloud cover :D
@nicks40
@nicks40 Жыл бұрын
And London is half as wet as Paris.
@mysteriousDSF
@mysteriousDSF Жыл бұрын
@@nicks40 I live in London, I work 5 days a week, so far I had to walk to or from work in the rain a total three times this year and it's August now.
@Cortaxify
@Cortaxify 7 ай бұрын
The striped areas in at least Scandinavia at 5:39 concerning alcohol means that there is different age limits for alcohol depending on where you buy it. In Sweden you can buy alcohol in the store for "home usage" at 20 while you can buy alcohol at bars and such establishments as early as 18. One of the more common arguments for this in Sweden is that when you are buying alcohol at bars and restaurants that you cant bring out outside the establishment and the servers can judge if the customers are to drunk or not. While the higher age limit to purchase in store among things is to prevent younger people from getting access due to siblings buying out for them as just a few years older siblings are unlikely to do so compared to siblings just a year older.
@frankie5373
@frankie5373 Жыл бұрын
great video
@maple494
@maple494 Жыл бұрын
6:35 Finland has over 900,000 reserve strength and 280,000 wartime strength kind of weird that it's not depicted in this category
@Pokekid001
@Pokekid001 Жыл бұрын
That's impressive - the US has only 1.1mil
@user-rk3ds2hu9y
@user-rk3ds2hu9y Жыл бұрын
@@Pokekid001 that’s the main army not reserves
@kriegshammer2161
@kriegshammer2161 Жыл бұрын
900000 fit for military service,16-60,in case of a very long war. The Finland army has active only 28000+18000 reserve. For comparison : Germany : 185000 +30000 reserve activ. About 33 million ,16-60,fit for military service in case of a very long war.
@milasudril
@milasudril Жыл бұрын
In general, the amount of solar hours is largest at the tropics. It is there you find the big deserts. At the equator, expect to find a wetter climate, and tropical rain forests. For the climate in Europe, you should read about the Gulf Stream.
@jdb47games
@jdb47games Жыл бұрын
Those big desserts must be delicious.
@milasudril
@milasudril Жыл бұрын
@@jdb47games Sure, I have heard that cacti tastes good (if you're a camel)
@devanman7920
@devanman7920 Жыл бұрын
I lived in both. Life in Europe is of higher quality and comfort compared to the U.S imo.
@stefanschneider3681
@stefanschneider3681 Жыл бұрын
Sunshine: Low numbers in most of europe probably because of the golf stream bringing warm water to the coasts all the way up to norway and a lot of humid air which follows the wind mostly blowing from west do east. And a little error: Euro - Dollar 1.7 in the map, 1.07 (which is probably more accurate) in the talk. Greetings from an often cloudy and rainy but thus very green Switzerland 😊
@zsomi5968
@zsomi5968 Жыл бұрын
It would be interesting to compare age of consent, because like here in Hungary it's too low, in some cases 12, but in most of the US it's unnecessarily high
@gumzy3000
@gumzy3000 Жыл бұрын
12 being an age of consent? That is really messed up honestly
@zsomi5968
@zsomi5968 Жыл бұрын
@@gumzy3000 If the older party is under 18 than the younger one can be above 12, in other cases it's 14, which is fairly common in Europe. Either way, it's almost always between people with similar ages, but 12 is definitely too low
@FirstLast-qf1df
@FirstLast-qf1df Жыл бұрын
The American progressives are always saying the USA should be more like Europe in all these different ways like universal healthcare and gun control. But the whole incident with Matt Gaetz shows that there seems to be one exception to that idea. Or maybe they just want to do anything they can to bash Republicans.
@user-rk3ds2hu9y
@user-rk3ds2hu9y Жыл бұрын
18+ is unnecessarily high???
@thiccsmoke6245
@thiccsmoke6245 Жыл бұрын
@@user-rk3ds2hu9y yes, it is. We here have a saying: "until 15 you can after 15 you must😎😎"
@Super123Los
@Super123Los Жыл бұрын
A little correction for for my country (Germany): you are allowed to drive with 17 with an adult and with 18 you can drive alone. The election age depends on the election from 16 to 18. And with 16 you can buy beer and wine and liquids with 18. Oh and you can consume it in public.
@razerpenguin1887
@razerpenguin1887 Жыл бұрын
That's why it said unsupervised driving
@kriegshammer2161
@kriegshammer2161 Жыл бұрын
A 17 year old can get the driver licence,for driving allone, if a car is needed to drive to the work place .If the car way is 30min and with train/bus 2 h ,or so .
@editefidalgo9201
@editefidalgo9201 Жыл бұрын
In Portugal at the age of 18 you can buy and drink any alcoholic beverage. There are no restrictions on the type of drink. In Portugal you can also get a driver's license for motorcycles up to 50cm3 at the age of 14 as long as you have parental authorization and school performance. You can also get a license for motorcycles up to 150cm3 or microcar at age 16 as long as you have parental consent. Those who get this license at 16, when they are 18 years old, they no longer need to take a theoretical exam of the highway code (because it is the same), they only need to take a practical driving test by car, and the license is cheaper and is much faster.
@holdenh.216
@holdenh.216 Жыл бұрын
You should have done a comparison on weather, especially severe weather.
@pppphillip
@pppphillip Жыл бұрын
Many people connect Europe and the USA with the term "western countries." But actually there are so many differences, as the vid shows. What is also a big difference is the way both handle with infrastructure and landuse and that european countries are way more efficient with (public) transport
@filippogamer2994
@filippogamer2994 Жыл бұрын
Also in Europe there are a lot of poor countries
@TheBarser
@TheBarser Жыл бұрын
Yeah europe is very different. As a danish person I feel closer connected to most of the US than I do to most of eastern europe.
@oLawlieto
@oLawlieto Жыл бұрын
The western and eastern countries term actually stem from the cold war and the soviet border line. So all countries in Europe aren't considered "western". The eastern part is slowly catching up in infrastructure, you can still see the economical difference of east and west to this day. If we really are going to hair pin it, North America is technically "far west" and Asia is "far east". Africa, Oceania and South America being the odd balls where there is now "hard line" to define eastern and western.
@lemagnifique1573
@lemagnifique1573 Жыл бұрын
For an Asian like me, Europe and the USA (also with Australia and New Zealand) looks under the same umbrella because of White people, Christianity, and highly developed countries
@TheBarser
@TheBarser Жыл бұрын
@@lemagnifique1573 I am sure a lot of white people also group all asians together
@NoUserU
@NoUserU Жыл бұрын
6:22 bro really said intelligence I'm not saying all americansare stupid, but some adults in the us think that asia, south america or africa is a country.
@CannedMan
@CannedMan Жыл бұрын
Norway: Beer and wine at 18; alcohol stronger than wine at 20. Driving age also depends on size of vehicle: mopeds and slow tractors at 16, cars at 18, lorries and buses at 18 or 21 depending on education.
@jbtom321
@jbtom321 Жыл бұрын
I've found it pretty interesting that my state of Illinois is nearly on the same latitude as Portugal. And almost the same length too.
@chadbro7760
@chadbro7760 Жыл бұрын
California has a lot of mountain ranges which causes the rain shadow effect leading to dry climates
@jfrancobelge
@jfrancobelge Жыл бұрын
I've been to the U.S. twice in my life (New England, then California and Arizona), and I enjoyed it each time. But there are two things that kept puzzling me; the tipping culture and the price tags that don't include the tax.
@tjmartin8516
@tjmartin8516 Жыл бұрын
When I was in Greece I had to tip
@tangledspoons1396
@tangledspoons1396 Жыл бұрын
people always call them mysteries but they are just so businesses can get away with lower price tags
@nicks40
@nicks40 Жыл бұрын
@@tangledspoons1396 ... but only the untaxed portion goes to the business, so it's more honest.
@jakubadamczyk1523
@jakubadamczyk1523 Жыл бұрын
@@nicks40 What's the difference? In EU just VAT tax is just inscribed on receipt and invoice. You also know what's the net and gross price. But please, don't talk about differences between states in US. There are diffirences also in EU and don't cause difficulties, but enterprises are just obligated to show gross price.
@nicks40
@nicks40 Жыл бұрын
@@jakubadamczyk1523 VAT is only inscribed on a VAT invoice. If it's just a receipt the VAT is not analysed out and people have no idea what items have included VAT and what items haven't. For example, strawberry flavour Nesquik has VAT, but chocolate flavour Nesquik doesn't. Chocolate biscuits have VAT but Jaffa Cakes don't. And so on.
@Bartkonig
@Bartkonig Жыл бұрын
It also depends when it comes to the amount of sunlight in an area that the ocean currents play in a big factor too. The ocean currents on both sides of the Atlantic are different also compared too the Pacific. When hot or cold streams come our way. The geographical make up of the land (mountains, rivers, valleys) also determen where clouds (and rain) will appear, thus jeopradising the amount of Sunhours we get here in Europe.
@TheBlondeNinjaXD
@TheBlondeNinjaXD Жыл бұрын
Please do a comparison between US Healthcare and European Healthcare!
@brunobegic3841
@brunobegic3841 Жыл бұрын
In like half of Europe living with your parents is perfectly normal, since it's more common for people to live in a big house than an apartment or condo. Where I come from young people mostly live upstairs while their parents are usually downstairs. It's pretty much like having two or more apartments in one big house.
@TzeiEm
@TzeiEm Жыл бұрын
In Finland (and I believe in other Nordic countries as well) it's quite the opposite. People generally move away from their parents at 18 or 19, sometimes even at 15 or 16 if they go to a school that is far away from their parents' home. And as far as I know (I might be wrong though, I haven't looked up any statistics) people in here tend to rather live in one room apartments (or studios if you will) than share a bigger apartment with flatmates.
@brunobegic3841
@brunobegic3841 Жыл бұрын
@@TzeiEm Interesting. Well, I guess 1000km of distance equates to a lot of cultural difference also.
@kokodk2
@kokodk2 Жыл бұрын
I moved out when i was 20. So did my siblings. Im 23 now and i dont know anyone who still lives at home with their parents. Nordic as well.
@Honken55
@Honken55 Жыл бұрын
@@TzeiEm I think Sweden has among the most single households in the world if you count per capita.....
@TheBarser
@TheBarser Жыл бұрын
Here in Denmark as you can see hardly anyone lives at home with there parrents. The reason is that you get money from the state when you study and this is significant higher if you dont live at home with your parrents.
@razvan-marianmihaila2155
@razvan-marianmihaila2155 Жыл бұрын
I think the two geographical entities could also be interestingly compared by the amount of foreskin per capita.
@Enyavar1
@Enyavar1 Жыл бұрын
whut? why? And, how would you reliably count that?
@alex1695lopez
@alex1695lopez Жыл бұрын
US has by far a higher percentage of circumcized men. Like it's not even close
@Enyavar1
@Enyavar1 Жыл бұрын
@@alex1695lopez Yes, I would suspect so. In Europe, the custom is only practiced among Muslims and Jews. But again, there is no reliable statistics on the matter, is there?
@alex1695lopez
@alex1695lopez Жыл бұрын
@@Enyavar1 in terms of statistics by religion, I don't think so. But that is generally the reason. However, even today the rate of circumcision is decreasing in the US.
@alterbr33d
@alterbr33d Жыл бұрын
In the US in the 1980s 80% of boys got circumcised, but in the 2010s it was 50%.
@kostyaw83
@kostyaw83 Жыл бұрын
@General Knowlege, Crimea is Ukrainian territory, despite being annexed by russia in 2014. If I'm not mistaken, most UN nations don't recognize Crimea as a part of russia.
@stdev.
@stdev. Жыл бұрын
2:18 Clouds
@williamsmeds1368
@williamsmeds1368 Жыл бұрын
6:08 Those are not the largest armies in Europe. For example Finland has over 900,000 reserve personnel, and Estonia 230,000. These are both very small countries with a total population of around 6,9 million people. Yet they have huge numbers in the reserve incase of war. Finland & Estonia are just 2 examples. There are defenitely more European countries with big numbers.
@Atilla33
@Atilla33 Жыл бұрын
Turkey has the second largest army in NATO for instance
@gigachad6582
@gigachad6582 Жыл бұрын
Yeah not to mention he completely excluded Russia which if im correct is a part of Europe
@fuqupal
@fuqupal Жыл бұрын
Yeah, but those are reserve conscripts. Probably not the most trained and motivated people depending on country.
@zept2170
@zept2170 Жыл бұрын
He was talking about standing armies, reservists are not included.
@NeverEverClever
@NeverEverClever Жыл бұрын
@@gigachad6582 might be they dont actually have that many troops left right now...
@fullmetaltheorist
@fullmetaltheorist Жыл бұрын
It would have been a more interesting comparison if you included the rest of North America. It would still stack up against Europe.
@ringtail5021
@ringtail5021 Жыл бұрын
Canada would carry the U.S. in so many categories lmao
@cablefeed3738
@cablefeed3738 Жыл бұрын
@@ringtail5021 Yeah totally Canada would totally carry everything it's not that America already easily compares with the entirety of Europe. Canada's market is equivalent to one state.
@chrislfc2317
@chrislfc2317 Жыл бұрын
@@cablefeed3738 Camada is so much better in a lot of ways
@cablefeed3738
@cablefeed3738 Жыл бұрын
@@chrislfc2317 I agree there are plenty of ways in which Canada is better I just don't see how they could say that Canada would carry America in many calgaries As if America wasn't going to pull their weight.
@FfFf-gi1hd
@FfFf-gi1hd Жыл бұрын
@@chrislfc2317 ehh, not really, they’re very similar to america
@yung_czery
@yung_czery Жыл бұрын
Dude has Kaliningrad within polish borders on the thumbnail lmao. I mean, I'm not complaining.
@nicolasjimenezgarcia9560
@nicolasjimenezgarcia9560 Жыл бұрын
To answer your question about sunlight days/hours per year. Being close to the Equator helps a bit yes, but in this case the most important factor is the amount of rain a place gets. The more rain equals more clouds (less sun). The less rain more sun. That is why the south west USA is so sunny because of its arid/semiarid climate.
@drrizzla4557
@drrizzla4557 Жыл бұрын
Here in France, you mostly leave your parents home when you are able to have your own house or to rent one. And to be able to rent a housing, most of the time, you will need a permanent employment contract, pay several rents in advance as well as a large deposit, and it's even more difficult if you're not in couple. So it's sometimes more profitable to stay with your parents even if you are no longer studying. And I must admit I am a bit surprised of how many people still believe god exists in the US, I always thought this was just in some southern states.
@italia689
@italia689 Жыл бұрын
Do not forget how many people here came to the U.S. (or North America, in colonial times) specifically to escape religious persecution. I think that has something to do with why so many people here believe in some higher power. Me? As an American, I do not care whether God exists or not. I do not go around exclaiminng he does, nore do I exclaim he does not. What ever you believe, that's your business. Do not think you are better because you are an atheist. Do not think you are better because you are theist. In fact, don't talk religion or politics.
@jraw7199
@jraw7199 Жыл бұрын
@@italia689 They didn't say that thought. They just said they were surprised at how many people believe in God.
@BakerZone760
@BakerZone760 Жыл бұрын
1:44 Being from SoCal , specifically the Coachella Valley, it does get around 120 F during the summer. As a kid/teenager I would skate all day long with my brother, during summers lol. Idk how we did it . Now when we go out this time of the year (June 12) it’s way too hot, and it not even the hottest time of the year lol 🥵
@seanthe100
@seanthe100 Жыл бұрын
June definitely feels significantly hotter because of the contrast in temperatures from the earlier months. The Coachella valley is definitely beyond hot in June though.
@MathiasEmilKuntz1994
@MathiasEmilKuntz1994 Жыл бұрын
which other things determines hours of sun? Pressure systems and pressure belts(low pressure vs high pressure systems and belts), how close to the ocean are you(continental vs maritime weather), Lattitude because closer to the equator you get the more vertical the clouds are vs the further from equator the flatter the clouds are.
@rayrod9081
@rayrod9081 Жыл бұрын
Two small things: 1. I think you should have shown the GDP per capita, as that is more representative of countries and areas with a small population and thus gives a better insight 2. At 7:20 you missed the 0 in 1€=1.07$ Other than this, very nice and informative video, thanks!
@Gamepainter
@Gamepainter Жыл бұрын
Yeah he stated the EU GDP was carried by France, Germany, the UK, Spain and Italy - Those are the biggest populations (outside Russia), GDP per capita ranks France 15th, Germany 10th, UK 14th, Spain 18th and Italy 16th. The 5 most successful economies in the EU are: Luxemburg, Switzerland, Ireland, Norway and Iceland, all of those have a GDP per capita at least 25% higher than in Germany (Iceland barely didn't make it 72k vs 54k USD, but the rest are well above, with Luxembourgers earning almost 3x what the Germans earn.
@MisterAHouse
@MisterAHouse Жыл бұрын
4:29 yes sir, I have reason to believe that the Vatican are most likely are in the blue percentage. I'm willing to go as far as to say that if there was a 100% color, the Vatican would apply to that one. Actually, bc the blue only goes up to 82%, the Vatican would literally be religious beyond the charts.
@oLawlieto
@oLawlieto Жыл бұрын
Well actually the it would be closer to 10% if anything the only ones that are "required" to be religious are the pope, the cardinals and the swiss guard for evenryone else it's optional. The optional includes diplomats, service staff and extended family which is the majority of the people that live in the vatican.
@joaotristao9974
@joaotristao9974 Жыл бұрын
5:40 I'm from Portugal. I'm 18 and I can buy every drink a want 😂. Vodka, beer, wine... u got some miss information there
@thatoneguysteve85
@thatoneguysteve85 Жыл бұрын
2:20 Other factors that determine the amount of Sun an area is exposed to is by the polar tilt of the Earth. The Earth's axis is tilted a certain amount so amount of Sun an area exposed varies greatly. You can imagine it like a spinning top on a table.
@scottdearden7734
@scottdearden7734 Жыл бұрын
Other metrics you could look at: Life expectancy Obesity Number of college graduates Number of top 500 universities Homicide rates Number of car owners Income tax rate Percentage living in poverty
@thomaskruse5691
@thomaskruse5691 Жыл бұрын
Ideas to compare US/EU: Educational level Import/Export levels Level of foreign language skills (how many speaks a second language than their native ones) Per state/country
@temporelucemtenebris5313
@temporelucemtenebris5313 Жыл бұрын
I'm kinda jealous of the climate they get to enjoy in Florida or California. Mostly for political reasons I will almost certainly stay in Europe (Croatia), but when it comes to weather and openness to communication with random people I prefer some parts of the U.S.
@jr3753
@jr3753 Жыл бұрын
Living in Southern California the weather is really nice but Croatia is a beautiful country
@bgorg1
@bgorg1 Жыл бұрын
Croatia is beautiful with lovely people and a rich history. I am from USA and will live here for political reasons (I really do love my country) but that doesn’t mean I dislike yours. I am very thankful for you and your compatriots.
@klug_d
@klug_d Жыл бұрын
Croatia, my favourite country 😊 Liebe Grüße aus Österreich
@rer9287
@rer9287 Жыл бұрын
objectively - without weather factors, yes everyone at any specific latitude will have identical "hours of sun", but more practically it can vary based on weather and terrain. Places with regularly thick cloud cover will have effectively less sun than a desert at an equivalent latitude. Also terrain can have an effect as a maintain top will have "more sun" than a valley.
@andrewjohnson9594
@andrewjohnson9594 Жыл бұрын
You made a mistake with the Euro to dollar. It is 1.07, not 1.7, which is a major difference
@Somebody-qo9ob
@Somebody-qo9ob Жыл бұрын
There is no data for the percentage of population with a certain belief god for vatican city ... but I'm willing to make a solid guess
@SamTaylorsVersion
@SamTaylorsVersion Жыл бұрын
1:43 we get it California & Arizona, don't rub it in
@patrickshell2813
@patrickshell2813 Жыл бұрын
I hate it here in Arizona, the temperature commonly reaches 46°C during summer
@SamTaylorsVersion
@SamTaylorsVersion Жыл бұрын
@@patrickshell2813 oof that's hot
@villekuronen6242
@villekuronen6242 Жыл бұрын
@@patrickshell2813 as someone from finland if i had to go there i would instantly leave i hate it when temperature gets over 25 degrees celsius
@pentti3715
@pentti3715 Жыл бұрын
6:00 If you count all reservists Finland has one of the biggest militaries in Europe with 900 000 reservists
@OnilMarteNavarroza
@OnilMarteNavarroza Жыл бұрын
Weather is another main factor that affects the sunshine duration. If you look at the map, those countries in known rainy/cloudy locations get fewer hours of sunshine.
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