American reacts to 'Americans are Dumber than the Rest of the World' 

It actually is India now, the country with the largest population. Maybe not at the time of shooting the original video, but as of now, yes.

I don't think we only learn this at school. From reading, following the news and talking to people from other countries we learn about the world from childhood. What's weird about Americans is the lack of curiosity.

True, we facepalm when US Americans talk about politics that way. Or pretty much any subject. It's not the ignorance that's rubbing us the wrong way, it's the arrogance, unwarranted pride and doubling down on things they don't really know a whole lot about. Some of them, that is.

Not knowing something is not bad or embarrassing at all, however being unwilling to learn or at least being curious to other perspectives, is.

Love it when that Italian guy said, he can't answer because of his limited vocabulary. Just a quick reminder that all these videos are in English because its (most often) the only language Americans understand. Just a meta level decision about being smart.... Next quiz in Italian and he would easily win against them all simultaneously :D

the dumbest thing about this is the buzzer...you cant ask a yes/no question with 2 people and a buzzer they should be writing down the answers and showing them at the same time

The girl who said: "Angela Merkel is like our Hillary Clinton." Just no. No. No.

I didnt know how bad I was at geography until I moved to Europe. I had to download an app to relearn everything. Not embarrased to admit it.

the end of the video hit hard "it doesn't even matter because we make really good movies" cant even remember the last Hollywood movie i considered good or even very good.

the crazy thing is, most of them for me arent "foreign" politics or stuff like that ... its not even stuff u learn in education, honestly nothing of that is really learned at school ... its like the lowest level of basic knowledge a 12 year olds automaticly gets by existing on this planet xD

Another tricky question will be: Were Germany and USSR allies during WWII? Yes, in the beginning when they invaded Poland which started WWII.

You're smart, Ryan. Otherwise it wouldn't bother you so much that you were ignorant on the one question. Intelligence and ignorance are two different things. :)

When I was about 10 yo, I really enjoyed looking through the big world atlas we had. It doesn't take very long to learn all the countries and capitals.

It's not a question of intelligence, but of education which depends on your socioeconomic background. In Germany as well, only not as much as in the US. But we're getting there..

i want to add that its harder for "the world" because a few have to think in english,- revert it to their language, than know the answer in their language, and have to convert it to englisch ... for the answer here. this video would be more fair, if they used only englisch language countries, or diverse the questioned people in seprate chambers where each read the questions in their mother tongue - ... than answer the questions as fast as possible and in the end the timer would decide which was better and which worse.

To all stupid people like me, I had to look this up: "The word country can be used to mean the same thing as state, sovereign state, or nation-state. It can also be used in a less political manner to refer to a region or cultural area that has no governmental status."

I love your channel. You are so in the videos and so vulnerable. That makes the videos really fun to watch.

Hi, you are a great person, you are interested in the world, you speak your mind and your reactions are great, you are not stupid as you say in some videos, you are just not informed how it works elsewhere, that's everyone if they don't look in detail how it works somewhere else . Thanks for every video and greetings from the Czech Republic 😉

I wish I could reshoot this since the ENTIRE THING is out of focus, but that would be cheating! Sorry

Well, if the video was done in 2023, the guy who answered india at the first question would have been right ^^.

Black Plague? it was The Black Death (A Bubonic Plague) so as far as i'm concerned they got those wrong.

Who is fighting over the gaza strip really does depend how far back you go, at one point it was the Allies fighting the Central powers over it (mainly the UK vs the Ottoman empire), which lead to the formation of British Mandatory Palestine to begin with. British Mandatory Palestine began in 1920. I suppose the video could make the argument that at that time it was merely wrapped up in a different conflict and was not its own beast, but the question as-is has A LOT of could-be-valid answers.

Geography and history are the American Achilles heel.

emu , Australia of course . Have you heard about Emu War??? fantastic story

Don't feel too bad about this WW2 thing. On my opinion you are cleverer than most of the americans 🙈 and much more interested in the world and different views! That's what makes you unique for american reviewers! I really like it. 👍

The one representing the UK should have been on the American team! lol

When it comes to geography and cultures, our education system has gone downhill too. When I was a kid in primary school, I loved projects revolving around other countries. I vividly remember the images and "feelings" of countries such as Indonesia and Japan, the projects we made. We also learned about our own country, but nowadays it's all they teach. It's like shutting the ears, eyes and minds to the beauty of other countries and cultures. It's as if other countries don't exist. In this respect, I understand Ryan's remarks concerning the US in this regard. We have gone down that path too!!! And it's a horrible feeling when you've experienced both kinds of education systems and it's hard to explain to those who've only experienced one or the other, but the myopic experience of just concentrating on one's own culture and country is horrible in comparison.

A state is a country. You American you! :)

I will shocked you more, U.S. even provided to the USSR Lend-Lease, forming a Grand Alliance alongside with UK. 😊

They all got it wrong. The official name is Brexshit.

One of the best abilities I think a person can have, is to learn … it’s ok to not know the answer , it’s ok to get it wrong … it’s how we learn and grow 🌻

You prove the tag line, all by yourself

Apart from the fact these questions are asked about culture and therefore it is not a test of intelligence, at most of memory, I can say with certainty that the Italian didn't get a single one wrong because the Italian school system is better than the US one, believe it or not.

India has only been considered the most populous country in the world since the end of April 2023. According to an estimate by the United Nations, India's population would then have reached 1,425,775,850 people. India only comes in 7th place among the largest countries in the world in terms of area.

Actually, Russia was an ally of Germany at the start of WW2, until Germany decided to invade Russia. Russia then joined the allies in the second half of the war.

The most shocking part of the video for me was them knowing that Brazil's language is Portuguese kkkkk As a Brazilian, how many Americans have tried to start a conversation with me in Spanish when they found out I was Brazilian....

Betteridge's Law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

The UK government created the term Brexit as an attempt to split support and create multiple definitions to dilute the vote (hard and soft Brexit were created too). It didn't work but the term stuck...

Brexit is an official term. Theresa May, defined the meaning of Brexit when she was Prime Minister. She said: " Brexit means Brexit." and that explains and defines what Brexit is. It is Brexit. And she was the PM at the time, so it is official. 😀

I remember that an American girl thought that Italy was on the equator 😭 now I don't pretend that you know the exact position of where Italy is but at least know that Europe is not at the equator.

It doesn't prove who is smarter when half the game is decided by who gets to the buzzer first. Also allowing someone to answer after their opponent got it wrong means the second person knows what the first one said is wrong. They might have BOTH thought the Atlantic Ocean is bigger. Not a test that really proves anything.

Most European speak more than 1 language and know about world politics. I for one have 5 diverente diploma and speak 5 languages. I also follow wrldtnews and try be be informed. Do this as well

When i was an exchange student, i was in our Yr 10, (sophomore) and went to the Senior year in Phoenix Arizona and Ridgecrest. even though 2 year higher than my level in Australia, it was the same stuff we were taught in our yr 7 and 8. (lower than the USA freshman year)

In the beginning of WWII the Soviet Union allied with Nazi Germany and they agreed to invade Poland in 1939, after which that country was split up, the western part was occupied by the Nazis, the east by Stalin. When Hitler declared war on the Soviet Union in 1941, Stalin became an ally of the USA and the other allied forces. The enemy of your enemy is your friend, right. Until the war was won...

Both Israel and Palestine are states as far as I can tell. On 14 May 1948, the Jewish People's Council gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum, and approved a proclamation, in which it declared "the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel."

Hey Ryan, a friend of mine from Carmel, Indiana, came to visit me in Lisbon. We went into a local store and a (maybe) Bengali man asked her where she's from. She said Indiana. Then he said, "India?" We laughed a lot because she's whiter than a potato!

It's funny to watch because most of your first thoughts are right, then you start asking yourself too many questions. You're the most cultured american I've watched in these sorts of videos 😀

When I was at school I hated Geography, but later in life when I started travelling I was enthused, I wanted to know everything about the countries we visited, so Geography became very relevant, languages too, and history as well. America tries to deny its history, denying slavery, denying the confederacy, etc. Americans aren’t dumb they value different things, mostly American, and don’t really have a “need” to know about other countries. The dumbest person in the world can ask questions that even the wisest people don’t know the answer to. So it not to know all of the right answers but to have the desire, and ability to ask good questions, ones that lead to a greater understanding.

Depending when this video was taken … India overtook China recently being the most populous country!

The Chinese currency is Renminbi yuan

I love the question about WWII and the Soviet Union being an ally. It's so hard to watch these answers. They weren't not even only an ally. I would even say the Soviets did the majority of heavy lifting against Germany. They also lost the most people by far.

Thank you for not editing de Soviet allies part. Made my day.

1:35 It's kinda weird I somewhat guessed what "405 south" means as a European just because I know the 405 is a big interstate Californian highway, but I didn't know it was the nickname of the place in the south of LA. But it's awkward to present oneself this way, it's just like if I said "I'm from the A104 east".

Australia lost a war to the emus. Look it up. It's hilarious 😂😂😂

State and country is the same thing basically everywhere outside the US. In Europe presidents are called "head of state".

Well at least you feel ashamed when you say something kinda dumb 😂 I really enjoy your content and your authenticity, you’re doing a great job 👏🏻

Your suffering is out entertainment. lol. That conclusion was painful though. Even I as non-American felt that. Ouch.

India is correct, the film is probably a bit older

Regarding the whole "country or state" thing, it all boils down to the definitions you choose. In a general sense, state and country are synonyms, and yes, Palestine is one (again, in the general sense). It's when we dive deeper when we start to find problems and nuances. We define states as political entities able to establish sovereignty (usually defined as the monopoly on the use of force) over the population of a particular territory. We define countries as sovereign (independent) states. This means normally the difference between a state and a country lies in a federal country being comprised of it's constituent federated states, but this is not at all a sentence that is true in all circumstances. Ultimately, what defines a sovereign country is international recognition. There are between 187 and around 206 countries in the world, depending on what, you'll say? Well, depending on who you ask. Those ~20 countries are not universally recognised by the whole international community (normally considering those countries' population and territory completely or partially belonging to another recognised country, or simply "disputed"). Palestine is in this situation (along with other countries like China, Taiwan, North and South Korea, Israel, Cyprus, Armenia, Kosovo, Western Sahara and several other more or less recognised, sovereign and independent countries). Then there is the complex matter of independence and sovereignty. There are states with a wide range of special political status (like free association, dependency, self-government, autonomy, etc), and different lists consider some of those states to be independent countries or not, depending on the amount of sovereignty the particular list considers enough to be considered an independent country (is Greenland a country? is Niue? is Aruba? are the Marshall Islands? is Gibraltar? etc). Finally, and regarding the official name of Palestine, most countries use in their official names words defining the form of the state, with names like "Kingdom" or "Republic", while others choose "Union" or "Commonwealth", signaling other characteristics of the country's definition. Some countries simply define themselves as "State of", in a pretty "aseptic" way, but this is more often related to a situation of transitoriety (where the final form of the State hasn't been defined yet) than to a situation related to lack of diplomatic recognition. I'd recommend taking a look at this list so you can start learning about these nuances: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states

The first giveaway that the video is older is long before they mention Gaza, right in the answer to the first question, because as of this year India's population has outgrown that of China.

Angela Merkel was the chancellor of Germany. Now we have Olaf Scholz. A real disappointment

I'm from a EU country and it really seems like many of the questions were made to favor our educational background, and since the point gap was so small, I think these Americans did a great job!

Allies or enemies, America decides this on a day-to-day basis, as we ALL learned?! Maybe not.

You cannot test how dumb a person is by making them remember facts Albert Einstein was famous for not remembering fact that he could not look up

But the one thing that I thought was weird is people didn't know that russia (before the soviet union of course), was not an ally. The axis of evel was at the beginig "Germany, Italy, Japan" and the other side was "Great Britain, France, the United States, and russia". Super over simplifying it (there are so many hours of documentaries talking about this). You let me down not knowing that hehe :)

Mr. Wuzer, have you ever heard of the Yalta conference in February 1945 to settle the end of WW2? And who were the allies present at this conference? Weren't they M Roosevelt for the USA, M Churchill for the UK and... M Stalin for the USSR?

Fun thing to do. Chat to someone online and pretend to be American. I'm British and did this with a fellow Brit. I said, "Oh, gee, you're from England? Is that in Europe?" My fellow Brit actually believed that an American could ask that question seriously. That says it all. That's how low our expectations of Americans are.

Don't beat yourself on making such a massive blunder, to be fair I almost got one wrong as well!!!! (It's a JOKE!! When you make that face... It's a joke)... You did well, and honestly, it is an easy thing to do to consider that USA and USSR were friends, (sort of anyway).. I did get the Japan currency wrong..

We in Europe have a big advantage in this type of quizzes because our dumb ones don't understand English. So it's easy for us to hide them out from the rest of the world.

I love how this quiz have questions catered to Americans, oceans they lay in middle of, Gaza strip thats constantly on their media, USA Russia pact, Germany cancelor that's one of few womans they learn about... And they still fall short!

A country can also be refered to a a nation state. There was no Israel state in palastine until the UK invented it in 1947 (give or take a couple of years).

You are right about one thing, multiple countries thought over the gaza strip. HOWEVER! while Palestine is up for debate as a country or not, it was. All of israel and palestine today used to be palestine. Israel is an invading 'nation' and if you go back in time, israel did not exist, but the country of palestine did.

Americans are not dumbs, just the US education system does not gives much attention in History, Geography and study of other Cultures as they should. And the worst is they are not gives answers to kids why the general knowledge is so much important and needed in their life, so they can search than knowledge elsewhere.

You answered nearly perfectly, so don’t feel bad, just about your co-citizens.

A lot of people seem to confuse knowledge with intelligence, those two concepts do not always go hand in hand. Yours truly is a fine example, I know all capitals in Europe and speak 6 languages, besides that I consider myself cultured in both history and general social behavior, none of that makes me intelligent, just a decent conversation partner. Plenty like me who believe they are intelligent, far from it, intelligence is the ability to understand beyond the scope of normal people, envision and create, something I lack.

You are right Ryan! ⭐ Palestinians are not from Gaza, Gaza was created for them as a separate State! They are from Jordan! 👍

its a country not a state. been around well before israel

People from Frankfurt am Main saying Frankfurt is the smartest country

I can respect ryan keeping his wrong answers in. He still seems far smarter than the average american tourist

Country and State are essentially synonymous terms because they both refer to political entities that govern themselves.

To be fair with you, the USSR/USA/Nazi Germany during WWII was kinda weird and I doubt it's well taught in the US : First, Nazis and USSR make a pact of non aggression Second, Nazis attack USSR anyways Third, Japan attacks US : so because Japan and Germany are allied, USA are allied with USSR Fourth : Stalingrad, and WWII is finished, now starts the Cold War, and the rush to Berlin I'm really summarizing.

"It will be embarassing for me, and entertaining for you, i hope." You are aware of everything. "No one is truly stupid who knows he is stupid." -Zhuang Zhi 200 A.D.

Hello from South Africa 🇿🇦. You missed "the Boston Tea Party" at 12:36. I thought the B in Brexit confused him, but then he confused me with his "gang member" comparison 😂.

The correct answer was Egypt and Israel. The state of Palestine did not exist when Israel won Gaza strip in a war from Egypt in 1967. The State of Palestine as political entity was formed in 1988.

You’re right. Israel and Egypt fought over the Gaza Strip. It belonged to Egypt and Israel occupied it after the 6 Day War. The expelled Palestinians to the Gaza Strip, but it wasn’t a part of Palestine.

And for some of the non Americans they were doing the quiz in a second language, don't forget.

The question about Russia being an ally in world war 2 depends on what year. As Russia worked with Germany to split Poland. Before the Germans attacked the line where Germany would stop had been agreed and the Russians advanced to the this point. Until Hitler decided to attack Russia it had been send industrial materials to help the German war effort. Only then did Russia declare war on Germany.

YOU added the word 'official' to the Brexit question!!!

Funny that Americans got 2 points just because they answered second on a yes or or no question and even admitted not knowing the answer.

"I mean to be fair there are 50 states." You are correct, there are! And we had to learn all of em! And of all the other major large countries. And its not like all of them have as few as Canada or Australia. I am so thankful to my geography teacher and the effort he put in to make us that knowledgeable!

There are no emoos in Australia either, but we do have emus.

I'm not sure the buzzer is a good way to decide these questions.

Two countries that fought over Gaza... Ancient Egypt. Ancient Greece. The Hitite Empire. Canaan. Ancient Israel. Britain. The Roman Empire. Persia. Modern Israel. Palestine. The Ottoman Empire. The Philistines. Various other caliphates. and too many others to mention.

I don’t know but it seems that schools and high schools have a higher level in Europe, as per testimonies of students and teachers that have experienced both in countries like Spain, Italy, Germany, France … at least in the “hardcore” subjects but quite less in group forming activities like cooking, playing on a band and so on.

I don't think dumb and uneducated are the same thing. . And then there's people who think they're right so don't try to learn...which is dumb.

The tall guy and the short girl... I swear they are a couple now! They had soo much vibe! :D

It's always individual, no country is dumb per se, just depends on curiosity and need. If we had to answer about USA and Canada etc we wouldnt do as well. Most other countries have free education, so its NOT necessarily the person.

Palestine IS a country, as part of the Ottoman Empire. They had their own currency, flag and leaders long before Israel was CREATED in 1947.

The palestinian question was weird as there is no country called Palestine, never was, it was just the geographic territory that is basically now Israel. Nowadays what people call Palestine is the territory arabs claim but there's no such country as of now. Gaza was a piece of land Egypt occupied from Israel but later resigned their claims to it. I was also initially thinking of West Bank which would be easier to answer since it's called Cisjordan in some languages, was contested between Jordan and Israel. It's the second, now so called palestinian territory, also not a country. It is governed by a somewhat weak and chaotic civilian government, not Hamas the terrorist organization that governs Gaza.

Weeeeellllll Actually... India is the #1 leader as regards population, believed to have bypassed China a few months ago. Though at the time of the video, China would have been in the lead ... "UNFPA data estimates India's population at 1.4286 billion against 1.4257 billion for China by the middle of the year. India is on its way to becoming the world's most populous country, overtaking China with almost three million more people in the middle of this year, data released by the United Nations show.19 Apr 2023"