Several years ago I was reading an article on world literacy rates. It depended on standards. In the US one needed to be able to read at a forth grade level in English to be considered literate. In other countries one only had to be able to write their own name to be considered literate.
@@ss-sd6jb USA. 4th graders only need to write their name, anything more than that is as impossible as walkable cities. "USA is too big, could never work over here" Best democracy.
@@sboinkthelegday3892 It would've been nice if our education system was so easy that you only needed to be able to write your name. With regards to reading, the US is among one of the better education systems in the world. On the reading PISA international test, they beat out British, Danish, Australian, Norwegian, German, Belgian, French, Dutch, Austrian, Swiss, Italian, Portuguese, Luxembourgish, Israeli, and Icelandic students. There were only 5 western developed countries that beat the US in this regard (unless you consider Poland and Estonia to fit that label). And unironically, the US has one of the best structural democracies in the world. For one, being able to elect the leader of the country, as opposed to the ruling party electing the leader, is great.
I think poland has the coolest (and funniest) translation of the currency. The currency is called "złote" which translates to "gold" but our smaller currency which is used the same as cents or pence is called "grosze" which is similar to the word "groszek" meaning "peas"
10:45 In Dutch we used to have Rijksdaalers (Rixdollar) / Daalers. The name came from the German Reichsthaler / Thaler. When the Dutch colonies (eg. New Amsterdam (New York)) in America were founded this currency was used there. The Americans took the Dutch word Daaler and changed it to Dollar.
Interesting. In Sweden we used to have Riksdaler too. The name was also obviously inspired by the Reichsthaler. Apparently we still use it as a slang for money
Fun fact about russian money: It does sound like it goes from word "to cut", and the thing they were cutting was some kind of metal, a lot of people in russia call rubles "forever wooden". If you say "can you give me 100 wooden" person will undersand you(If you speak russian, of course) Also, we have a secondary currency, "Kopayka", which is 1/100th of a ruble, kinda like american cents. Although, since 1 ruble costs around 1 cent, there are really no need for secondary currency, so it slowly dies out.
3:10 I think Germany is so low because of our Minijob system, which a lot of students, parents and some pensioners use. It's a kind of contract that allows your employer to not pay any social security, including health insurance but your gross salary can't be more than 520€ per month at 12€ minimum wage. Meaning you can only work up to 520 hours a year with such a job (minus sick leave, holidays and vacation days (minimum 20 per year with a 5-day work week)) Only one minijob per person is allowed but you can do one additionally to your main job.
The reason as to why pound is related to meassuring is because, if you had coins worth one pound, no matter from what material, then all the coins together would weigh one pound. That was because the worth of a coin was determined by the material it was made from.
Joachimstaler: What it means is, that there is some place called Joachimstal (Joaquin's valley) somewhere. And in this valley they produced coins. The Germans called these coins Joachimstaler, which later was shortened to Taler. If you speak Taler in slang/local dialect it might sound like Dollar.
To talk about Japan, they have good work hours just a shitty culture that fears leaving when your shift is over 😅 Its been changing with the newer generation but its still pretty noticeable.
The Vietnamese word đồng means copper or bronze (you can attach a word onto it to distinguish), borrowed from Middle Chinese 銅. Even though it’s used primarily in reference to the VND, if you speak Vietnamese and live in a country where the dollar is used, the word đồng can be used in lieu of đô (la).
100% literacy rate does not imply that absolutely every single person is literate, but that the rate is above 99.5%. It's actually not very unlikely that North Korea might have achieved this since all Communist or former Communist nations have put a big emphasis on ground level education, hence the number for Uzbekistan as well. Actually all of the former USSR has higher literacy rates than the US or Western Europe. (No, I'm not a tankie. One achievement doesn't make these places cool, don't worry.)
Germany is so low in the working hours table because we not only have part time jobs (e.g. 30 or 25 or even 20 hour weeks) for people who can't work more, like disabled people, parents, students, etc. Also for those who are self employed and just starting or taking it easy, a 15-17 hours work week employment is not uncommon, cause it takes care of your health-/social ensurance completely, which is partly mandatory and very expensive if you can't share the cost with the employer. We also have so called 'mini-jobs' or 'side jobe' with less than 15 hours/week that are very common with students - they are tax and ensurance free, but can really save your life when you are a student living alone (and as a student you don't have to pay health/social ensurance, cause you are included in your parents ensurance for free till you are 27 or finish education, whatever happens first). Oh, also we have a lot of paid national and local holidays(specially in the 2 southern states), we have paid vacation of 22-30 workdays (that is for a fulltime 5 hour week and you have to take 5 days to get the full week off), paid sick leave, partly paid maternity leave and parental time (the 1-3 first years of your newborn child that you are off work to spend with your child), so those are ofc. not working hours.
Petition for Drew to make a series covering Ace Combat and its multiple universes: [Day 160] The Transall C-160 is a military transport aircraft, produced as a joint venture between France and Germany. "Transall" is an abbreviation of the manufacturing consortium Transporter Allianz, comprising the companies of MBB, Aerospatiale, and VFW-Fokker. It was initially developed to meet the requirements for a modern transport aircraft for the French and German Air Forces; export sales were also made to South Africa and to Turkey, as well as a small number to civilian operators.
It's not about alliances, it's about estimating the likelihood of emmigration. Countries have visa policies to control the flow of people to their country. So they allow tourists to come because tourism boost the economy, but if people coming from a country has a high likelihood of using tourism as a means to try to migrate then most countires tries to restrict visa policies to that country. This is something every country does. Bulgaria would be just as strict, if it was in better shoes. But it's not. It's very easy to just complain about not being allowed to get a visa, and moan about alliances and what-ever, but try to at least have a little thought about it. Alliances are irrelevant. Bulgaria is not being punished for not being a good ally, it's citizens are being restricted due to fear of illegal emmigration. Which is their decision to make.
Dollar comes from Taler, which is the modern form of Thaler which is the short form of Joachimsthaler, which got its name from the origin place where the silver was mined: the Joachimsthal. The name spread and was soon used in its short form for all big silver coins. Among Germans you can sometimes hear the old saying "Wer den Pfennig nicht ehrt, ist des Talers nicht wert." and this despite the fact that the Taler was replaced by the Mark in the various forms by 1908 (and the Pfennig was lost when the Euro took over). Why? Because when they translated Scrooge McDuck they called the Dollar Taler in the German version. And from there the old saying found its way to Scrooge McDuck and the minds of a lot of Donald Duck readers.
10:45 In Dutch we used to have Rijksdaalers (Rixdollar) / Daalers. The name came from the German Reichsthaler / Thaler. When the Dutch colonies (eg. New Amsterdam (New York)) in America were founded this currency was used there. The Americans took the Dutch word Daaler and changed it to Dollar.
Hurricane Season not necessarily will be worse this year due to El Nino (sorry, no tilde available). The higher temperatures would, but as seen in the graphic of El Nino Effects, the "sinking and stable air in the atlantic" and stronger vertical windshear will reduce the chance of Hurricanes and weaken existing ones. But if one manages to develop in an area without windshear, then it may become extremely strong.
In Vietnamese it's called đồng, which means coin but since it's hard to type out in English people just write dong instead. I don't know fully about the history of Vietnamese currentcy so you'll have to ask Google.
Oh, and the fun thing about the german currency 'Joachimstaler' (from the place 'Joachimsthal' - 'Joachims valley') is that it was a currency in only this little city and it didn't even exist for a decade in the early 1500s! Yet, it was the origin of several currencies of the past days, starting from the german currency 'Taler' (from which 'Dollar' emerged then) over the czech 'tolar', polish 'talar', dutch 'daalder', italian 'tallero' and from the first half of the name 'Joachim' : you have the former currencies of 'Joachimico' (italian too), Jocondales (french), Joachimik (polish) and even 'Jefimok' in Russia.
11:36: it is actually called "đồng" and not "dong", and it was essentially how we called it for many centuries (we also had xu, hào, quan, and like many more ways to name a currency back in the old days, but now it's just đồng) And it also translates to "copper", so I guess
11:37 ok, I'm not sure about that but it's come from the term that our currency (the coin) use to made by copper (đồng), throughout the French time, the Vietnam war (there were two different Vietnam đồng at that time like Korea nowaday) until the coin being snap 2011 (i don't really know why they stop the coin circulation , maybe small kid getting choke by it, inflation or lack of metal at that time)
There are 180 marital arts all around the globe with different techniques and fighting styles for example there is Brazilian ju-Jistu and fighting style so there are probably more marital arts around the would because a lot of them are not very popular like viet do dao Since martial arts are more than just styles of fighting if there is a slight difference between martial arts like drop kicking someone to meditation in different forms like silat and sumo that come from different cultures like sumo Japanese and ju-jistu comes from many countries in different ways like Brazilian ju-jistu and Japanese ju-jistu Muay-Thai for example is a marital art that involves legs more than hand to hand combat in my opinion probably because of the tribes from Thailand that have strong legs so it’s easier for them to fight because it’s in there veins kombatan is a martial that involves hand to hand combat I’m not sure of the country it’s from but they train with a bamboo type substance sometimes. For some reason kendo a popular type of martial art techniques is not mentioned that often even though it’s one of the most common techniques in all of japan . And if your wondering if Karate is better than kung-Fu kung-fu is better for more gripping and more hand to hand combat but karate is a more offensive style of fighting in general karate is a better option if you want to defend your self but if you want to beat the opponent use kung-fu Taekwondo is a underrated martial art that is probably better than many martial arts like Karate for example the person who does karate gonna get knocked out but that’s not the point the ju-jistu is over rated when a marital art called krav maga can easily beat in a combat simulation they have a better technique and can defend them selves better and have more strength and stamina to the body. That’s it for your lesson today and there’s 180 martial arts
11:38 😂 nah, actually its "vietnam đồng" and "đồng" means copper. I guess in the ancient time, we used to use copper as a kind of currency so therefore the VND were borned. Its hilarious
why does French Guiana have a higher rejection rate than Metropolitan France ? That is a bit funny, they are French citizens exactly like .. me ( i'm from Metropolitan France ) they have exactly the same passports and so on .... is it a mistake in the map you are commenting or is the usa really making a difference for the French according to what part of France they come from ? ( the European part of it or all the overseas territories ? )
the us does diferentiate from where you come from, and they probably do the same for other places like some random british isles, i don't know why tho.
@@kuroganeyuuji6464 i have thought about something but i don't know if it is the good reason : french guiana is nearly the poorest department of france, there is just one behind it, so maybe some people from french guiana who want to come to the us will try to stay there illegally ? maybe it is more likely to happen than with those coming from metropolitan france ? the people from metropolitan france don't even need a visa lol thanks for your answer anyway ..
0:00 sadly they took it from Chile some days before, it is such a new news that it says is the map that Chile is visa free, but not anymore😢 so I think now we're green
I think that Best Korea does what the CCCP (the official name of the Soviet Union) did where they just looped the same soldiers and vehicles around the block and went through the same route a few times to make it seem like a larger army or arsenal than it actually is or was.
USA: look how cubans desperately are trying to escape cuba via boats! USA: *psst, your supossed to send the dudes i hired* CIA: oh right USA: see? There they are! Cubans: can we pls enter USA: Lol, ofcourse not.
7:40 100% literacy is probably not quite correct as you also have to consider the blind people. If you count the way blind people read as "reading", Norway and Finnland might actually live up to those standards but that is not what the statistic is saying.
In Finland, literacy is mandatory for everyone, and therefore everyone is taught literacy in Finland. And it is also believed that a country cannot be a democracy if all its citizens are not literate, and therefore it is thought that literacy should be mandatory.
We used to have 100% literacy is Sweden as well. Then a lot of illitirate refugees needed somewhere safe to live. (This is not a bad thing, except when it comes to statistics that I was proud of - like literacy and secularism.
I can recall reading an article in which the North Korean government arranged a rally in which they had people roam with banners which implied that their nukes have the American mainland in their reach.
The currency of Norway is called "krone" ("crown") as stated, but the subdivision is called "øre", 100 "øre" to the "krone". This word is derived from "aureus" - a Latin word meaning "gold coin". The 50 øre coin - the last coin to be denominated in øre - was removed in 2012 for being too worthless. Talk about inflation: the unit literally called "gold coin" is today worth 0.00098 US Dollars.
4:34 Hurricanes almost never get to the North Atlantic anyway, so this likely won't make any difference 4:52 This map shows Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies, so the Northeast Atlantic is not warmer than the Western Atlantic, but more abnormally warm. In fact the waters around Europe are significantly cooler than the waters of the East Coast of the US. 5:05 Yeah sorry Drew, El Niño conditions make tropical development more difficult due to increased vertical wind shear over the MDR
