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Being from the Midwest is an advantage for knowing geography. We are the forgotten states but obviously we know them because we live there. The east and west coasts are easy because there is more thing going on there. The northeast is probably the most difficult because of all the little states.
I don't want to be mean, but... Are you guys in America ALL uneducated, like these 2 valley girls ? How can someone not know the geography of their *own* country ?! WTF ?
Well that was embarrassing 😆 Living away from the US for so long really made me second guess some of the states 😆 Promise I'll do better next time! 😅 -Christina 🇺🇸
Haha it's ok! It can happen, especially if you've lived outside of the USA for a long time. If you do move back to the good ol' USA, or even just visit, I learned a song back in fourth grade called "Fifty Nifty" written by Ray Charles that taught me to remember all 50 states of the USA in alphabetical order. It's a children's song, as I did sing it in a musical with my music class back in 4th grade, but it was helpful nonetheless! By the way Christina, I was born in Chicago and grew up in the northwest suburbs and I still live in that area! I think you will really like Chicago in terms of sightseeing, museums, art, food, sports, music, entertainment, you name it!! Speaking of food, I am proud of our food!! I don't know what the pizza is like out in South Korea, but we got awesome pizza in Chicago!!!
As a german and seen many Videos like this, I always thought:"They dont know about the rest of the world , but US is so big, they know at least their own country " Fail🤦♀️
Fun fact ( stereotype ) : people from United States 🇺🇸 are famous for being bad in geography , not just about other countries , but also their own country , I don't know if it's true
True. Back in 2008 there was a war between Russia and European country named Georgia. American people saw in the news "War in Georgia" and they automatically thought it was the American State.
For me the easiest state to identify in the US is Alaska, because it is not geographically connected to the rest of the country and is the largest state in the US 🇺🇸
We had to learn all 50 states and their capital cities when I was in 4th grade. Somehow they've still stuck with me. In more recent years I've taken to trying to learn all the countries and their capitals and being able to both ID them on a map and simply by their outline. I'm not all the way there, and still have some trouble remembering all the places in Africa and Oceania, but I'm getting there. Edit to add: Now that I've finished watching the video I also took the quiz. 50/50 and 5:41 time remaining, so yeah.... it's stuck with me ;-)
My 7th grade history teacher told us she was going to make us memorize all of the counties in our state. There are more than 80.Luckily she took pity on us and changed her mind. 😂
You might have trouble differentiating Colorado and Wyoming solely by their outlines. The rest are definitely doable though. I just took the quiz and got 50/50 with 04:31 on the clock. I probably could've done it a few seconds faster if I had a pointing device instead of having to use the keyboard.
I live in Florida because of my scolarship❤❤I am from Syria ....My Amerian friends are amazing ....they were super clever.....but unlukily most of them are bad in geography....I knew about their country more than them 😂😂the Amerian peole are super kind.....they practiced with me the English language 😙😙....I am very very very happy because I travelled to this country to study😍😍love you guys from Syria
I think we all pretty much adore Christina, however... lol, you failed us on Connecticut and Vermont?!! You're from Massachusetts! My heart broke a little today. But, I shall survive this! Still looking forward to seeing more of these vids.
Do they not have the Great American Challenge in Massachusetts? Like that was a huge part of our grade. 50 states and their capitals also the preamble to the constitution
I'm from California. We have mountains and lakes and forests, we have wide valleys, we have deserts, and we have beautiful beaches. I learned all of the U.S. states and their capitol cities when I was in elementary school. I did not need to travel to the state first before I could learn where it was located, so I did not understand her logic saying she did not travel very much in the United States.
People have different priorities. Being able to place all 50 states and their capitol cities is not a particularly useful thing. When I was studying geography, I could name and place every country in the world and their capitols as well as all the major lakes, rivers, mountain ranges and deserts. It took hours upon hours of studying, and has only been vey minorly useful. Knowing specific legislative regions within a single country is much less useful than that.
@@castillejan Couldn't agree more, and I'm one of those geography geeks who knows all the states and countries. Kind of useless (but fun) and generally only considered important by Europeans who want to get into pissing contests with Americans over who's more intelligent 🙄.
@@Ivan-fm4eh same I'm from the UK and know all the US states and a lot of random places like Rifle Colorado and Yonkers NY or Jacksonville Florida from a combination of things such as UFC, true crime, comedy and other places. Not that practical but fun and mostly accidental.
Acabo de encontrar tu canal y me encantó además de Cristina que es muy expresiva me ayuda mucho en mí comprensión en inglés y además todos los videos están subtitulados en inglés me ayuda muchísimo gracias.
I have always been a fan of Christina. But Shannon was surprisingly well spoken and knowledgeable. They did pretty well considering that we have 50 states and a very big country. I don't think that it is a flaw that people have not memorized all of the state's names and locations, because in a modern world Google and RU-vid will get you answers that you could only find in a library decades ago.
40% in 7 minutes isn't pretty good. Last I checked that is a big fat F. The geography of a person's country is basic knowledge and it's a cop out to say we have technology so don't need to know anything. My kids have calculators and I don't let them use that as an excuse to not learn basic math skills. We don't need to know everything, but we should be able to master facts a 10 year old should know.
@@dustinduncan2444 That is nice as an ideal. But critical thinking skills are much more valuable in real life than rote memorization ever will be. It is valuable to teach reasoning skills and practice problem solving. But dwelling solely on memorization causes problems later with adaptation and flexibility. There was a popular game show called "Are you smarter than a 5th grader" Where adults struggle to recall the lessons that they should have learned in Elementary school. It is a fun show to watch, but it does highlight the fact that most facts memorized have little value in adult life, work, or happiness.
@@deanmcmanis9398 , I would agree that rote memorization without critical thinking skills is problematic, but it is not an either or situation. They use different parts of our brains and failure to continually "exercise" either part results in reduced capability. A well formed intellect requires both. At best a reduced ability to recall information slows down critical thinking (it's why we tend to add memory to computers to improve performance before just dumping more processors into a system - looking up from secondary storage is a huge slow down). What I was calling out is 1st an over reliance on technology and using it as a crutch rather than a tool. Its one thing to say something is there if you need a reminder, but a completely different thing to say it doesn't matter because that technology is there to supplant natural parts of our brains. The 2nd point was defending the poor performance as if it was close to being good. If it hadn't timed out and they had gotten 65-70% that's in the "not bad" range (not good, but ...). They didn't even get through 2/3 of the states. Maybe they would have done better with more time, but at best I would have charitably said "geography recall doesn't seem to be their forte". There was nothing in it that rose to the level of "not bad".
@@dustinduncan2444 my man you act like they only knew 40% of the countries when the reality is they never got a chance to answer them. And every single one they got wrong was only one off, which is pretty good considering they both live in Korea now 😐
@@dustinduncan2444 Not using calculators to be able to rely on only your brain in order to solve math problems? Good skill. Knowing where all 50 states are and what their names are? Useless information unless you plan on becoming a millionaire by going on some random trivia gameshow.
This could be the proof that beauty is really helpful in life and can possibly replace many other qualities and skills, including also education and scholarization......
"Can American Name ALL 50 States of the US" is a question asking if all US citizens can do this but asking one or two people, very young people....likely selected so that the channel gets the response they want. I can name every state, its capital....and name every Western and Eastern European country and its capital and identify its flag. I can do the same for Central and South America and all the countries in what the US describes as the Middle East and all countries surrounding India. and all major countries around china and Japan. I can name and locate about 1/4 of the countries in Africa. So... does that make me smart? No... it only means that at some point in time, I put some minor effort into learning these things and I've maintained that knowledge because from time to time I've reviewed it. There are things I learned in school that I've never once read about or heard about again since that time, and I've lost that knowledge. That is how the human mind works. The US is a very capitalist society in which your occupation is one of the primary characteristics of a person, socially speaking. ie. when you meet someone initially, very soon in conversation, you will be asked "What do you do?" The reason I bring up this point is that in the US, people put MUCH more effort into their occupation and focused study of that rather than general knowledge. Most US citizens know "the countries" of the world while they are in school IF that was part of their study, however as with most topics.... if it stops being part of your life, then there is a greater chance that you will "forget" those things but gain MUCH more knowledge on things which are very active in your life. While in school I knew more geography, geology, biology, calculus...etc etc etc, then I remember now. I do know much more history now than I did even in school because I enjoy it and read about it and watch videos. But I can guarantee that anyone who would "test me" on random general knowledge and grade me as stupid.... I highly doubt that those people would be able to challenge me in the knowledge of my field of work. The reason is that I work 50hrs/wk in my field and there is required study to keep up with new developments within my field...so I stay up to date. Videos like this seek to support the idea that US citizens are stupid... it appeals to a massive inferiority complex of people from other countries who resent the US for being a political, military and economic leader of the world. They wish to believe bad things about the US and they hope for the US to fail. They criticize the US at every opportunity, valid or not. Its pathetic honestly. Are there stupid people in the US? Yes, without a doubt. There are also incredibly intelligent, skilled, knowledgeable people. The US has more millionaires than any other country; the US has more billionaires than any other country. While I don't have the information, there is a good chance that the US has more geniuses than any other country (one reason being immigration and the best and brightest from other countries often immigrate to the US and genius parents often have very high IQ children). So does the US have more low IQ citizens than any other country? Not likely. Most 1st and 2nd world countries (possibly also most 3rd world countries use IQ tests during school or when deciding upon high level education opportunities and the US hovers around an IQ of 100. The demographics of the IQ testing show that it is the immigrants from countries with average IQs lower than the US in general which pull down the avg IQ of the country. And the US allows more immigrants each year than any other country on earth. You do the math. There are entire countries which have average IQs which would be considered "special needs" in the US. But those are facts which are not politically correct to discuss right? Because the politics of it want us all to claim (only an idiot would believe) that all people are intellectually equal. This video does not answer the question in the title. There are 340 million US citizens. How many answered questions in this video. Now, take that number and do simple division to find out how relevant the video is as a basis to answer the question in the title.
You totally nailed it. 💯 And those who equate intelligence with rote memorization of countries and capitals doesn't really understand how intelligence works...
I'm Australian, never stepped a foot inside the US, did the same test and got 47/50. Not gonna lie, I completely forgot about the Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri strip. I understand not knowing all the states, but not knowing your own neighbouring states Christina? Come on.
We just don't care about geography that much. I'm from California and while I know the 50 states, I'm not going to be offended if someone doesn't know where our state is or what our capital is.
Why in seven hells would they make you memorize the location of all 50 states as an Australian xD I would fail that test just to show how pointless knowing that information is as an Australian lol
You will hardly believe but I am Italian and did this game with a friend of mine back at school. We named 48 states and missed Wisconsin and Connecticut! It was not bad for two Europeans I must say.
Canada is bigger, but we've fewer Provinces-your states, so you've got more partitions to remember for a similar space. Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
As an American I’m crying I’ll name all 50 states to make myself feel better California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nebraska, Nevada, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Washington, Delaware, Alaska, Hawaii, Rhode Island, Kansas, Arkansas, Texas, Maine, Wisconsin, Missouri, Minnesota, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Pennsylvania, New York, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Maryland, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma, South Dakota, North Dakota, North Carolina, South Carolina, Nebraska, Virginia, West Virginia, New Mexico, Arizona, Vermont, Mississippi, Connecticut, Montana, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Kentucky, Probably left one out or named one again because it’s 1AM here and I’m tired
There is one of those quizzes (same site, I think) that has the outline of the country only and you have to click on the state they give you (no state outlines). I failed the first time (because once you get one wrong, you have to start over) and the second time I played, the first state to come up was Rhode Island! Try hitting R.I. on a big blank US map! I hit CT so I wasn't too disappointed. I finally did it on my 4th try... it helps if the order of states they give you is more forgiving.
I’m Californian and even I can do better than them- I can get a 50/50 on that fricking quiz cuz I’m a huge geography nerd bruh And I was so stressed about the time cuz they were taking forever 😭
Hoho, you guys never been in Russia. After 6 hours on the road you can still be in the same state (we call it "oblast"). And more than that after 24 hours on the road it will be pretty same view with trees. And in US you can get from Montana mountains to Texas desert.
It takes 12-14 to drive from one side of Texas to the other. It's a running joke to text someone on a road trip every couple of hours and ask them if they have made it out of Texas yet.
Alaska, Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine. Answer: yes. And I did it in a single dictation with my eyes closed.
I was trying to guess the entire US map. Now I could remember all of them and guess them in less than 2 minutes. Thanks, the website is really great and so helpful. It was like playing a game.
i took the quiz and i still had more time remaining. thats how good i am. i am an expert on geography. i always got 100% on my quizzes back in high school. 😀
Just a reminder to people in the comments that the reason you don't see videos about Americans knowing geography is because knowing things isn't funny.
I’m American and was made to label a blank USA state map in school. I have lived in different regions and gone on many long road trips. Also my experience is that a lot of geography is taught in history class. I remember having to name and label all the 13 colonies when we studied the American Revolution, the Northern and Southern states when we studied the Civil War, just like we had to label Western Europe when we studied the WWs. How exactly does one study about war without getting into geography?
@@carkawalakhatulistiwa I said I’m American. I was made to study geography and history in school so I’m not sure where you received that information. I took a MANDATORY semester of geography in 7th grade where we had to label countries, major rivers, and major mountain ranges in different parts of the world. I had to take a state history class in every state I lived in. Then I took AP US and AP European History classes in high school. Then I had even more history at my university, mostly European history which isn’t surprising considering the history of colonialism and slavery.
Really?! I'm a high school drop out, and I can identify every state on a blank map without trepidation. And you are college graduates?! It's hardcore face-palm time!
Imagine the French girls having to do this with the Départements 😅 This was weak though, I can draw a rough map of the US and put all 50 states on it. Granted I'm a little obsessed with the US.
Geography isn't something Americans brag about like Europeans do. I suspect it's important to Europeans because they colonized most of the world, so geography is also their national histories.
I always mix up where NH, Deleware and Maryland Massachusetts are, It's those smaller east coast ones that make me second guess myself. Please don't even ask me about state capitals, I just found out our Capitol isn't in washington the STATE lmfao
I'm italian. My country is divided in 20 regions and even if I've never visited them all, I can recognize them looking to a map like pretty much every other italian, so for me is quite absurd that two american people don't know the geography of their home country, but I also understand that U.S geography is more complicated than the italian, lots of states have a very similar and anonymous shapes and are difficult to recognize. So I think you did quite a great job, maybe if you have time you can study a little bit more, just to enrich yourselves
@@WeatherIsFun Yes, but that means nothing for me. If you take the maps of U.S and France of exact dimensions and you ask a baby to tell which country is the bigger he can't, but if you ask him to learn all the states of U.S. and all the departments of France he can do it, with a big effort obviously. For him the enormous distance between New York and Los Angeles can be short while the distance between Paris and Nice can be bigger. So for me the dimensions of the countries don't matter at all. When in middle school I had to learn the location of every african country I did it even if it's a huge continent
Here's an even more important point: geography amounts to trivia, and taking pride in knowing your geography is just a matter of choice (and national pride for European countries that colonized most of the world).
Oh my god…this is mortifying!!! How is it possible that any American over the age of 10 can’t name all the states? Good god…I could 100 this quiz in like 2 minutes. 🙈
3:33 girl, you're from Massachusetts. One state over. How do you get that wrong??!! 😂 🤦♂ Edit: omg and Vermont too??! LOL I think you've been an ex-pat for too long! At least get the neighboring states to your home state right :D
@@adilhoxha5443 You can call it as you like. I can call your country as i fucking like. But in our hearts and minds it will always be Macedonia. So you can bite me Шиптариште смрдено.
@@ParadiseDB7 It's not for you to say.... You can only test me and see... But all those states that they were uncertain and thinking about before they ultimately got them wrong in the end ... were really easy for me. Am not saying I know all of them... but the easy ones I can guess just fine. (update, I just did the same test 42 /50 correct with 3 minutes left on the clock to go) :P :P
how is this possible? i used to think american youtubers or late night show hosts would do this on purpose in order to get views. she said "this is your area" and then they proceed to not know where anything is. i dont get it.
They probably forgot that there was a time limit, also this was more a fun thing than competitive. So the people of the internet I request you to spare them.
@@LuckyOwI777 That's why they don't remember it. We learn it in grade school. It's not ultimately important outside of pissing contests with Europeans.
@@Ivan-fm4eh what? So, anything you learn in grade school you don't rememebr and/or isn't important? lmao Idk what kind of memory you have, but I remeber most things from grade school.... It's a little important to know the most basic geography of your own country, lol
@@LuckyOwI777 Reading, writing and 'rithmetic is the stuff that we actually use. As I've said plenty of times here, I'm a geography nerd and know just about every country/state and its capital, flag, etc. But, come on, this sort of stuff is trivia. The only ones who think it's a marker of intelligence are insecure Europeans who love getting in pissing contests with Americans.
Hmm...the only one you usually have to think about is telling Colorado and Wyoming apart, because they're both squares. Colorado is the lower one. I'm from Wisconsin, busloads of lakes and rivers full of fish and woods full of deer, but if nobody knows where we are, that's okay. If Christina ever tells us the fall colors in Vermont aren't really that great, we may have to take that with a grain of salt, as she may have accidentally gone to New Jersey.
An easy way to remember Colorado is remembering it's one of the 4 states that share a border called the four corners so that's New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado. It's easier to remember that way cause it's just really cool cause you can be in four states at once.
Seeing how Shannon would like to go to Montana, I can bring her with me when I finally get to visit my favorite state in the US, and at the same time I can try and refresh her knowledge of the 49 other states, he, he!
Geography is a subject people love to brag about but in any situation it's useful you always have access to a map anyway...also reading maps that are really useful is a totally separate skill from remembering names on a bad map projection lol.
