The idea that it is legal for these people to own a gun is terrifying!

A friend of mine, was in the United States as an exchange student. During the first week, they discussed the continents in the master's program. Unfortunately, no US American knew where Africa was and that it is a continent. In a master's program! I didn't want to believe his story. Now I believe it!

The idea that it is legal for these people to VOTE is terrifying!

17:50 the epic occasion when Justin finally gets tired of 'Yes' and tries to correct the person answering incorrectly, and encounters the true awesome power of dumb

And these people are your future voters and leaders! Congratulations America.

As an incoming 8th grader, this makes me feel like I can work for NASA.

The fact that "I don't know" is the best answer is hilarious.

"If you were born 10 years ago how old would you be today?" "I'd be like 12." That's with tax, of course.

I’m a 71 year old woman and I feel like a rock star after watching your videos. I had no idea it was this bad out there. It’s almost seems unbelievable if it wasn’t so sad. 🇺🇸

The very idea that some of these people are allowed to vote and own guns is absolutely terrifying!

I'm from the UK 🇬🇧 I'm beginning to think we let you win. 😂😂

My favorite part has to be the guy saying "Yes" to every comically wrong answer.

"Get your hand out of your pants - it's time to represent America!" A sentence I never thought I'd hear, but I love that I did!

This isn’t only a completely failed school system. There is much more wrong with these people. Most of these questions don’t even need to be taught; if they had the slightest, the faintest, the most vague interest in the world around them they WOULD know!

Ryan, could Justin perhaps ask the same questions to random teachers at a school? The answers might just be mind blowing.😅

"Can you name 5 states?" I had a 0.000000000001% chance hope she would go "Solid, liquid, ..." lol

I'm not American and this is truly beyond any level of sadness. How can you live your life and not see what is going around you

Most Aussie kindergarteners would be embarrassed if they didn’t know the answer to these questions❤️✨

It's funny because my primary language is Spanish. I had to learn English, and I learned it so well that I have zero accent, and learned it by old fashion reading, tutoring, and practice. I went to the library, voraciously read books on everything, and anything. Learned to hand write in the second grade, learned to tell time on an analog clock in grammar school, taught myself to play guitar, etc.. [A large portion of] Kids & even young adults these days with every advantage in their hands, on their fingertips, every piece of info, everything they have these days at their disposal that I didn't have, still struggle with basic stuff. Granted their are also lots of very smart kids and young adults that are as smart as whips, the level of struggling with answering basic questions displayed in this video is just incredibly scary.

14:11 The answer _is_ 100. He _said_ 77 + 23, even though the person doing the subtitles wrote 77 + 33. 12:10 I heard her to say Manhattan. Confirmed when her later "states" were boroughs of New York city. I think she heard "five" and went for boroughs, as there are five. But even then she still made a category error, putting "New York" in the list along with some of its constituents.

Ryan, your mission if you choose to accept it: make sure your children don't end up like these people 🤣

Seriously how can the guys asking the questions keep a straight face? I would be rolling on the floor howling with laughter

You can find similar videos where people ask such questions everywhere. And everwhere you can find people who can't answer them. Even in germany 🙂

This has been going on for decades, Jay Leno used to do segments like this way back in the 90’s.

"The strongest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." /Winston Churchill/

I lived in Spain for a while in 1985. When I came back, friends and family asked me a bunch of questions. Some of them had no clue that Spain is in Western Europe, no clue that Spaniards DO NOT eat Mexican food as a regular part of their diet, and that Spain borders France.

I'm an Australian. I visited California in the late 70's. Most people did not know Australia existed or where it was located. People were surprised I spoke English. Many thought I was from Austria. My European friends (Holland, Germany, Switzerland, England) had a broad knowledge of my homeland. It's pretty hard to miss a country of 3 million square miles on a Global map.

I'm a dual national who spent some of my childhood in the US but most of it as an expat in Europe. When I took the university exam for a language and translation school in my country, I was given the subjects aimed at americans due to an administrative mixup. Now, for the most part, this didn't change much for me. However, there was a General Knowledge component to the exam where you had to answer 5 to 10 questions and the difference between the American oriented test and the European one was shocking. I had prepared with practice exams aimed at people educated in this European country, so the questions I prepared were along the lines of "What was the Age of Enlightenment and name 3 influential people from that time.", "What were the last 3 countries to join the European Union?", "What was the Treaty of Versailles and when was it signed?", etc. When I saw the questions aimed at americans I thought it was a joke. The questions included: - "Name three American states that start with the letter A." - "What country has a maple leaf on its flag?" - "Where are the winter olympics currently being held?" - "What does the acronym NATO stand for?" Easiest test of my life xD I was a little insulted even, but I'm starting to realize that they may have been spot on with those questions.

What makes me sad is that they are happy to be ignorant at a time when it’s never been easier to find information about stuff. 😢

You were completely correct when you stated, "this is going to be painful". OMG .

American students are so funny 😂😂 From Europe (France for me) it's just incredible to see that !

I love his response at 15:36:"Don't be dumb, just know." 😂

I had this exact thing happening to me back in 1996 when visiting California (I'm Norwegian) on business. I'm standing on a corner eating when a guy comes up to me and asks "sorry, do you have the time?". Since I had my mouth full I hold up my wrist - where my analog wrist watch is. He replies "Sorry, Sir, I do not know how to read that". I had to chew up and swallow and tell him the time...

My Irish mother born in rural Sligo could recite her × tables at 96 years of age - and was suffering with dementia ! RIP Mum xx

In Australia i met an American who worked for Apple that thought when he was asked to transfer he could drive over. I also had a cashier ask the superviser to come over and show them how to use a calculator last week. The bill was $13.50 and they had been given $15 and needed to work out the change.

Congratulations...they live among you and vote

I'm always curious how many people he had to question to find those "specialists" 😂

This is astounding!! I knew our schools were lacking, but this is deplorable.

"how many moons does the earth have?" "30?" we're all gonna die from flooding. 😂

there pepople walk around with blinders on. in there own little bubble, where they are the center of the universe, there phone is there outlet to everything in life, and they have a memory of a gold fish.

If I was an American, I would be on the streets demanding from the government to change the education system. These guys cannot even THINK for themselves! This is tragic.

I love education in Germany. There are a lot of bad educated people in Germany too, but I think IT would bei harder to find people who mess up that hard. Free education and to know your education is not connected to your parents income is really a great thing. Obviously money can provide a better education, but the "normal" is alright. But I have a question: How do these people survive? And what happend all the time these kids sat on a bench at school? Waiting for the end of the day?

I love how the movie “Idiocincracy” is literally coming true

The girl naming the 5 states is clearly a native New Yorker because she gave the interviewer the 5 buroughs of New York which are Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, Manhattan and Staten Island.

I would love to ask their teachers the same questions. Did these people finish any kind of school? If yes, who gave them their first school certificate? Once you have such a big lack of knowledge, you complicate every simple question in your head, and you can`t think logically. That`s so sad. But the worst tragedy is that these people are allowed to vote.

I read a discussion where an American who was coming to Europe asked what kind of alphabet and numbering system is used here. The Latin letters and Arabic numbers answered him. The guy was desperate thinking he had to learn to count in Arabic and a new alphabet.

Ryan, YOUR reaction is worth the price of admission.

Thank you, thank you, thank you I needed a good laugh, the tears are streaming down my face 😂😂.

I love how dude say “yes” at the end of every answer. It’s secret code “yes, they are this stupid” 😂.

As an Englishman AND a carpenter, I learned to use imperial (feet and inches) while on site being taught by the old guys, and learned metric when I was at college. So now I have the advantage of knowing both whenever it comes up. It's like being bilingual.

After watching this my brain stopped working 😂

"What is a country? Maybe she is being philosophical." Priceless.😂

The guy who asked the questions is a genius. He managed to find all these people who have never been to school or college. Even here in the UK I'm amazed how many young people have no knowledge of history or geography. What on earth are they teaching kids these days.

I laughed way too hard at the “us was founded in bc” 🤣🤣💀

OMG I nearly wet myself looking at Ryan's expressions of disbelief and exasperation lol

The most powerful and most educated country of the world!!!!...Oh Dude...I feel so sorry for you!!!..

The way the guy keeps saying yes with every wrong answer is hilarious 😂

This is so upsetting. It is not only the school system that is failing. America in general is failing it's people.

I loved watching Jay Leon’s Street Walks. It was so embarrassing how little our citizens were uneducated. The first thing we taught our kids was to learn a clock, not a digital one.

This goes back to Groucho Marx on "You Bet Your Life", when he asked the classic, "Who's buried in Grant's tomb?".

It is kind of starting to make sense why college is so expensive in US: it must take lots of resources to bring this level of knowledge to the level of bachelor's degree... :)

This is as entertaining as it is terrifying.

This is supposed to be the generation that solves the climate crisis. We’re doomed

Dude is like ''To be fair.... But y'know, To be fair.... Hey, to be fair...'' Eventually he was bound to break~

It would be interesting to see what sort of representation those in the USoA would have if the voters had to pass the same tests as immigrants do to gain citizenship. It would be even more interesting to see what sort of representation if the politicians had to pass the same immigration tests.

The fact that I also never heard of the American-Mexican war but would still be able to answer it correctly and they can't BAFFLES ME!

its like they are not able to understand the questions. like they are just not used to thinking that way. like humans who just survived for 20+ years but got no input. like people who grew up in isolation or something. like nobody talked to them when they were children. you cannot just put them in a school and expect them to learn things like "normal" kids. they need to be picked up where they actually are. they need someone to play toddler games with them and take them seriously and go from there. forreal.

I love how this guy agrees with them all. He tells himself, "No need to argue with idiots or the radio." And he's right!

"What is a country?" I taught a course at the local college, and had some students who didn't know what the word "political" meant. I used the word melancholy, and there was this blank look from the class. I asked if they knew what the word meant, and maybe a third did. I taught high school a little and the 11th graders were reading at a 4th grade level, or what USED to be a fourth grade level. This is not surprising since the kids don't do ANY homework. Sure, you could assign it, but no one would actually do it. The parents didn't care, and the administrators were salaried bureaucrats who were phoning it in. We're talking Idiocracy here--or something out of an Orwell novel.

.I’m Central American and I have laughed so hard watching this!!!! 🤣 I used to think our education was the worst: not anymoreee.

The "BC" killed me... 😂😂😂😂😂

that "are you fucking kidding me" stare at 2:11 got me CACKLINGGG

As a German I have problems with one of these questions too ... how many inches are in two feet ... I generally think, that the use of metres and centimetres is much easier than inch and foot. But after watching the video, I even doubt that these guys know how many centimetres are in two metres.

A friend of mine was responsible for the acknowledgement of students from abroad to a German university. He always said that students from the US where at the same level as those of a West African third wirld country. I couldn’t believe it. Until now.

Here's a truly terrifying reality - these people will breed!

Your exasperated expression at these airheads had me laughing out loud.

The interviewer, he kills me every time he said "Yes" to all of these totally stupid answers. Oh my goodness!

I am from the UK and my 10 year old grandson could answer these questions easily. Your country is is trouble if the younger generation cannot answer these easy questions. Not one of them could get a job even in a burger bar because they have to be able to count money and how many of each item are required which obviously is beyond them.

🤣🤣 Yo Ryan.... you are very inventive in finding explanations for the dumbness of your fellow countrymen.... I LIKE IT 👍👍

I have been watching a few of these videos and had to ask my children and was glad that they could answer these questions! But watching these , make me want to cry !

Kudos to the guy for his infinite patience. I would have hit them or myself in sheer frustration!

I remember my mom saying the older she got the more she realized she was a genius compared to what was coming up

I love he says Yes after every wrong answer. Probably not to make them feel stupid.

I remember an old (70's) Bob Eubanks show where the woman didn't know what urban and rural meant... so there were people like that a long time ago....in America 😁🤣

0:42 "Maybe she's just being philosophical" made me laugh harder than I've laughed in a long time.

Love it! We Europeans feel so wise watching it 😂😅

Next episode "What color is blue? ummm, PINK!" "Yes....smfh"

🤔"Hmmm. What is a country again?" 😂😂😂😂😂

I'm not sure what is more amazing: The amount of times these people could not answer that there is only 1 earthly moon in the night sky or the fact that no passerby stopped in shock to a) ask what's going on and b) help those fools out.

Now we know why he agrees their answers are correct. Even when he tells them the answer they don't believe him.

There's a lot of these videos here on YT (like for instance a few good ones with Jay Leno). One of my favorite questions is "Name a woman", and the person can't answer it. Or "Name a vowel". "What's a vowel?"

I had a neighbor who was in her late 20's. She could not read an analog clock. She was hired by FEMA .. true story

You know, I think it is not just the USA. I once saw a Jamy Oliver cooking show, where he was teaching teenagers how to cook. One girl did not know why the water was producing those little bubbles. I mean seriously,... she HAD NO IDEA what cooking water was.

It’s not just the US where this excruciating embarrassment occurs,it happens here too (UK). This world is rapidly turning to shit,any passing aliens would take one look at us and say ‘’fuck that,let’s get the fuck out of here”

Funnily enough the number of moons is actually quite contested. There’s many episodes of a panel show here in the uk called qi where they mention the updates over the years of what scientists believe

😆ISTG this is right out of the movie Idiocracy! The guy REALLY needs to ask - _If you had 1 bucket that holds 3 gallons, and another bucket that holds 2 gallons, how many buckets do you have?_

"Isn´t the northpole below us?" -- this one made me laugh so hard :D

He said five states not five boroughs. She’s listing the five boroughs that are in the whole state of New York. 😂😂😂😂😂

I used to live in Florida as a foreigner, you can not imagine what bs people tell, never reading a book or school going pffft.

If you read books by the American science fiction author Robert A Heinlein written back in the 40's 50's 60's you will see that he quite accurately predicted this decline in education standards and refers to it several times.