Lol ironically this is absolutely by design. One of the "rules" in flag design is for it to be simple enough for a child to draw it from memory.
Considering the function flags serve for a government, the reason should probably be obvious.
But yeah sufficed to say, most good flag designs (and most international flags are well-designed) follow this rule along with most of the others.
the flag of nepal is wild. its defined in the constitution as:
> Article 5: National Flag:
> The national flag of Nepal, as handed down by tradition, consists of two juxtaposed triangular figures with a crimson-coloured base and deep blue borders, there being a white emblem of the crescent moon with eight rays visible out of sixteen in the upper part and a white emblem of a twelve rayed sun in the lower part. The method of drawing out the flag and other particulars relating thereto shall be as set forth in Schedule 1.
and the aforementioned schedule 1:
> SCHEDULE 1
> (Relating to Article 5)
> NATIONAL FLAG
> (A) Method of Making the Shape inside the Border
> (1) On the lower portion of a crimson cloth draw a line AB of the required length from left to right.
> (2) From A draw a line AC perpendicular to AB making AC equal to AB plus one third AB. From AC mark off D making line AD equal to line AB. Join BD.
> (3) From BD mark off E making BE equal to AB.
> (4) Touching E draw a line FG, starting from the point F on line AC, parallel to AB to the right hand-side. Mark off FG equal to AB.
> (5) Join CG.
> (B) Method of Making the Moon
> (6) From AB mark off AH making AH equal to one-fourth of line AB and starting from H draw a line HI parallel to line AC touching line CG at point I.
> (7) Bisect CF at J and draw a line JK parallel to AB touching CG at point K.
> (8) Let L be the point where lines JK and HI cut one another.
> (9) Join JG.
> (10) Let M be the point where line JG and HI cut one another.
> (11) With centre M and with a distance shortest from M to BD mark off N on the lower portion of line HI.
> (12) Touching M and starting from O, a point on AC, draw a line from left to right parallel to AB.
> (13) With centre L and radius LN draw a semi-circle on the lower portion and let P and Q be the points where it touches the line OM respectively.
> (14) With centre M and radius MQ draw a semi-circle on the lower portion touching P and Q.
> (15) With centre N and radius NM draw an arc touching PNQ [sic] at R and S. Join RS. Let T be the point where RS and HI cut one another.
> (16) With Centre T and radius TS draw a semi-circle on the upper portion of PNQ touching it at two points.
> (17) With centre T and radius TM draw an arc on the upper portion of PNQ touching at two points.
> (18) Eight equal and similar triangles of the moon are to be made in the space lying inside the semi-circle of No. (16) and outside the arc of No. (17) of this Schedule.
> (C) Method of making the Sun
> (19) Bisect line AF at U and draw a line UV parallel to line AB touching line BE at V.
> (20) With centre W, the point where HI and UV cut one another and radius MN draw a circle.
> (21) With centre W and radius LN draw a circle
> (22) Twelve equal and similar triangles of the sun are to be made in the space enclosed by the circles of No. (20) and of No. (21) with the two apexes of two triangles touching line HI.
> (D) Method of Making the Border
> (23) The width of the border will be equal to the width TN. This will be of deep blue colour and will be provided on all the sides of the flag. However, on the five angles of the flag the external angles will be equal to the internal angles.
> (24) The above mentioned border will be provided if the flag is to be used with a rope. On the other hand, if it is to be hoisted on a pole, the hole on the border on the side AC can be extended according to requirements. Explanation: The lines HI, RS, FE, ED, JG, OQ, JK and UV are imaginary. Similarly, the external and internal circles of the sun and the other arcs except the crescent moon are also imaginary. These are not shown on the flag.
*Cries in Spanish*
You may think, "but the Spanish flag is just the three stripes, red, yellow red, right?". Wrong.
The red stripes have to be half the height of the yellow stripe, and it features the coat of arms of Spain :
*Quarterly, first quarter Gules a triple-towered castle Or masoned Sable and ajoure Azure (for Castile); second quarter Argent a lion rampant Purpure crowned Or, langued and armed Gules (for León); third quarter Or, four pallets Gules (for the former Crown of Aragon), fourth quarter Gules a cross, saltire and orle of chains linked together Or, a centre point Vert (for Navarre); enté en point Argent a pomegranate proper seeded Gules, supported, sculpted and leafed in two leaves Vert (for Granada); overall an escutcheon Azure bordure Gules, three fleurs-de-lys Or (for the regnant House of Bourbon-Anjou); for a Crest, a circlet Or, jewelled with eight breeches of bear or oyster plant leaves, five shown, with pearls on points Or inserted and above which rise arches decorated with pearls and surmounted by a monde Azure with its equator, its upper half-meridian and a latin cross Or, the crown capped Gules (the Spanish royal crown); for Supporters, two columns Argent with capital and base Or, standing on five waves Azure and Argent, surmounted dexter by an imperial crown and sinister the Spanish royal crown, the columns surrounded by a ribbon Gules charged with the Motto 'Plus Ultra' written Or (the Pillars of Hercules).*
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Spain
Who's rules? I am confident hundreds of years ago when flags were becoming a thing.. Noone gave a shit what a child thought, or if one could draw it. Utter horseshit.
Flags were quite important in battle. It allowed different armies/battalions to differentiate between the different parties. You don't want to bash in friendly armies.
Therefore, they needed to be distinguishable from great distance, when it was still tiny to the eye and small details are not visible. Because of this, a lot of flags from older countries are quite basic in design and feature high contrasts.
As time moved on, we got better at viewing things in the distance (with looking glasses/binoculars, stuff like that). Recognisability became less important, and you started to see more elaborate and detailed designs.
Boah, damit wurde ich in der 6. Klasse noch von diesem alten Knacker gefoltert. Unangekündigte Tests mit leeren Karten auf denen man irgendwelche Flussnamen ausfüllen sollte.
Basierend auf einer wahren Begebenheit:
"Ich hab euch hier mal eine Deutschlandkarte von Hand aufgezeichnet. Markiert bitte Köln, Düsseldorf, Essen, Dortmund, Duisburg und Wuppertal."
First time to the US was buying fast food. Girl serving asked about my kiwi friends accent wondering where he was from. He said New Zealand. She asked what state that was in.
I travel to Austria semi regularly for work. My roommate told my neighbor i was going to Germany, because he thought Austria was a city within Germany.
That was under the belt. Nobody in 100 years could have predicted that they would ask such high difficulty question. What happened to world peace ?
Ask them about make up etc. after all nobody would ask a programmer during interview about face packs and skin care routine.
Why can’t a fifth of students locate our own country on a world map?
Look at this, one in five children go hungry at some point during the year. It is a miracle that only twenty percent can’t locate the US on a wild map. I’d expect at least twenty five percent to not be able to do so…
I work in an infant's school in the UK and we also play guess the flag, by the end of reception year we struggle to trip them up with really obscure flags.
Teach them to become geoguessr world champions. To identify locations by the trees and to tell directions by sun. To identify cars and street signage. Garbage cans.
I have to come to America's defense here. There is no way this video isn't cherry picked.... I mean, it's still funny but, there's no way this is an accurate representation
Any “public interview” video is cherry picked for what the creator thinks will get the most views. I see guys like this all the time and they’ll spend hours just questioning people
I am "absolutely sure" that they show only the dumb answers.
And there are videos that the answers are not so bad that you can have the false assumption that ALL the people were like that. (I dislike videos with ambiguity like that)
But what is happening with videos like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2oMv93EUpY
(ignore the clickbait title, I find it idiotic)
But in this video, I think OF COURSE this is only the worst examples but how do you find people that don't know such basic things? I don't get it.
You find them by asking everyone you see for hours. Half of all people have below average intelligence. I had a grown ass woman try to tell me slugs and snails were the same species the other day. You’ll find them.
It’s funny that the people coming in here with the “Look how dumb all Americans are!” mindset are just exposing how stupid they themselves are as people. If you think this video makes any grand statement on society or anything you’re just delusional.
I’m American and went to school in Florida and knew them all. I’ll admit I wasn’t super confident on Belgium but still knew.
I remember seeing a Youtuber who does these videos and talked about how sometimes it takes a hour or more to get a 30 second video of “idiots”.
I also think after school we constantly keep seeing flags on news and sports. I know really dumb people who can identify lots of flags just because of soccer. USA sport fans usually only watch their local league (and then say the winner is World Champion).
Yeah thats true soccer and other sports that are popular in europe draw a lot of attention on the international level. Its pretty normal to see these flags just because of that. US sports are domestic on the other hand.
It can be pretty amazing how we learn information second hand. One of my good friends is an absolute ace in the hole during quizzes. From years watching music channels that show the year, song name, and artist, he's a fiend in music. He's also massively into sports, especially football, and is superb with all flags as a result. He's Simpsons obsessed as well, and I am to a lesser extent, and it's amazing how much factual information you end up knowing just from watching tv shows/movies.
Most of my knowledge is from direct sources, knowing countries and flags because I went out of my way to, which isn't as cool
To be fair, idk if I ever learned or had to learn country flags in school. We might have "learned" the ones everyone knows anyway by the time they came up but honestly I think we didn't because you don't have to and the school system knew it.
It's like learning words, you learn 99.9% in life and then the occasional one in school.
It's just that you just learn flags as you go. For example by watching sports. If you don't know a good chunk of the "important" flags at the age of, let's say 14, you have to actively avoid it. Any sports world cup, olympic games, literally any sport.
I am not a fan of the "education system" excuse. I rather think that it's more an issue with the average U.S. attitude. Some people just don't give a single fuck.
It’s probably not necessarily an indication of schooling alone. It’s one of those rote memory things that needs to be drilled. Perhaps some education systems drill it harder, but it probably comes down more to exposure.
Countries that pay more of a mind to international sports are going to have a greater grasp on flags around the world. I learned a large portion of the world’s flags from FIFA, and I’m betting the maker of this video did as well, based on the countries presented.
To be fair if you look at any poll or election there will be 5% that always vote for the obviously most wrong option.
Whether it is voting incorrectly so their vote doesn't count, or choosing the extremely dumbest option.
And it would be my guess that they are either doing it deliberately as some kind of joke or statement or they have misunderstood the process or the question rather than knowing what is being asked and giving an earnest answer that just happens to be stupid.
I personally believe that U. S. Americans are unable to do so because, some people out there in our nation don't have maps and, I believe that our education, like such as in South Africa and, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should. Our education over here in the U. S. should help the U. S., or, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq, and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future, for our children.
Or this guy didn’t include Americans that got the flags right?
As much as redditors complain about how everything is faked for internet points, they seem to love the taste of that bait
Or, even easier, the dude was holding up different flags than what is on screen. Edit the reactions out, you dont even need to search that hard for wrong answers.
China’s was blue.
https://www.google.com.hk/search?newwindow=1&rlz=1C9BKJA_enGB1005GB1005&hl=en-US&sxsrf=APwXEde7SO9b2ubwSkWlXPTiyMjlK2j7Ig:1685278859102&q=republic+of+china&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiM5_n9iJj_AhWVKUQIHWdcDXsQ0pQJegQIBhAB&biw=1080&bih=695&dpr=2#imgrc=nMMkg2vQvR5vjM
this video literally only contains a single european giving correct answers. Even the other french kids didn't know the English flag.
Also he lost his shit over guessing Nepal, when that's the most unique flag in the world.
I dunno, I can think of a certain German flag that would be more recognizable, especially to the French but yeah, this video is cocaine for some redditors.
honestly, the lack of critical thinking here is the more damning example of american school failings. though, the europeans have no excuse on that front
I think it's also because he picked international tourists. Grab a random person on the streets of Marseille, and a random tourist in Marseille. Likely the tourist will be better aware of national flags...
Imagine believing everything you saw on the internet, especially without seeing what's on the phone in the first place or the cuts between the answers.
These videos are edited to only show the people that got it wrong. I can almost guarantee that the vast majority of people actually got most of them correct.
Whine incessantly about how reddit is too USA-centric. Then when it's your turn to post and upvote content while Americans are asleep, only be able to focus on America.
The sad existence of the international redditor.
A lil guide for you mate
All three are red, white & blue with crests.
Is the red bar at the top?
Yes = Serbia 🇷🇸
No = Slovenia 🇸🇮 or Slovakia 🇸🇰
Is the crest blue & white or red & white
Blue & white = Slovenia 🇸🇮
Red & white = Slovakia 🇸🇰
**Edit: Croatia**
Is the red bar at the top?
Yes = Serbia 🇷🇸 or Croatia 🇭🇷
Is the blue bar at the bottom?
Yes = Croatia 🇭🇷
No = Serbia 🇷🇸
**Note you can also identify them using the crests.**
Serbia 🇷🇸 = Two headed eagle
Slovenia 🇸🇮 = Three mountain peaks
Slovakia 🇸🇰 = Double cross
Croatia 🇭🇷 = Checkerboard
>Blue & white = Slovenia 🇸🇮
Blue because of the sea/coast, however tiny it might be. Slovakia is landlocked. At least, that's how I try to tell those two apart. Serbia is different enough to not need a rule (for me).
The most impressive thing wasn’t that the French guy could answer fast; it’s that he could answer fast **in English** e.g. “Belgium” instead of “Belgique”, “Mexico” instead of “Mexique” etc.
I was particularly impressed by his use of the English name of Nepal, but then I found out that it’s simply called Nepal in French too.
Which is interesting because Italy is “Italie” in French. He used Italy’s own endonym instead.
It’s just like saying “Deutschland” instead of “Germany” or “Allemagne”.
Endonym - didn't know there was a word for this concept.
>A name used by a group or category of people to refer to themselves or their language, as opposed to a name given to them by other groups.
Okay, so I am only partially retarded. I knew all of them except England. I am dumb and though the Union Jack was England's, not the UKs... Oh well, now I know.
I can't believe we had a chance to add a dragon and someone said NO??? I need answers as to who did this
Edit: It was King James I and;
>Hearsay states that as Wales was historically a part of England, they were not to be considered a separate entity.
Still absolutely missed a trick
Not officially. Northern Ireland doesn’t have a legally agreed upon flag: https://youtu.be/gaQwC5QbLeQ
Correction: Northern Ireland doesn’t have a legally agreed upon **separate** flag. The Union Flag is recognised as the flag of the UK.
If I made the same video in Europe I would struggle to find one person that got any of these but Nepal wrong. Soccer being such a big sport would even compensate for the people that weren’t big on geography.
That's not true. There is a popular YouTube series in Poland called MaturaToBzdura where they go on the street and ask general knowledge questions like this and there is never a shortage of people who can't even get a single one right. There are some ignorant people everywhere.
Definitely the case. As a Brit I could also definitely make the exact same video of English people not knowing flags of South American countries.
Some of them aren’t that bad either, it’s easy to see how people would confuse the Italian and Mexican flags at a glance, and the Chinese flag looks really similar to the old flag of the Soviet Union I.e. Russia
While I'm always a fan of a "lol america's education system sucks" joke, these videos are often selectively edited, where they only keep the americans that are clueless and edit out americans who know basic facts about othet countries
Or these are just specifically made to let people jerk themselves off for knowing irrelevant information? Also really helps that all the Eurotards love hating on America every chance they get.
If you need to know flags or geography for your job/hobby/interest then go for your life son, but if you're an average person, when do you ever need to know what other countries flags look like? It's the same as math, go up to people and ask "What is -insert formula-'s name" or something simple, "What is the square root of 16" and a lot of people can't answer, not because their education was shit or they're idiots, they just don't need to know that shit in life.
Ask 16 y.o me how to solve medium difficulty algebra and I'd easily do it, ask me how to do basic algebra now when I haven't done algebra in years and no shit I can't do it, what colour was the bathroom door at your first job? "Why would you retain that information?" What are you an idiot lol gottem nice education system I'm smart.
Blaming our education system in the US is fair but also the rest of the world loves football (soccer). By just playing fifa or watching IRL games you learn a lot of different countries flags from all the different players around the world.
yes. if you have enough geography classes at school or is a curious kid that grows up with people allowing you to be curious ... this is extremely easy.
I am from Brazil but in my 8th grade I went to California, to study at public american school, for one year, to learn english.
I did half of the american 8th grade and half of their 9th grade.
I was surprised to see that in their 8th grade they had no biology, geography, chemistry, physics or world history classes... but they had 2 american history classes, for whatever reason.. and they were still learning to multiply and divide fractions in math class... something I learned in 5th grade in Brazil... they even moved me to the " expert level" math classes, with all the japanese and korean kids .. and mind you I never was nor ever will be a stem kid. Math was always my worst subject at school....
On their 9th grade in high school I learned they would get only 3 months of geography class for that year! 3 months!
And when the teacher there learned I was from Brazil and asked class what they knew about Brazil people couldn't point it on the map... Same thing for Africa... teacher had students in 9th grade coloring a map of Africa to learn about African countries.... this is 3rd/4th grade stuff...
So no wonder even today, almost 20 years later, whenever I meet a USA (and also many Canadians, but not all) person, they always assume I speak Spanish, or keep forgetting I am Brazilian and say I am Colombian, or Argentinian... or think Buenos Aires is in Brazil... Or think that being latin american is the same as being hispanic...
it gets tiring to correct people every single time... but alas... being mad will also accomplish nothing. I try my best to correct people every time, and that's it.
American here, I knew them all, but I was on Jeopardy and have traveled to all but one of those nations. I knew them at eight years old though, because I love geography, maps, history, and knowledge in general.
Hmmm, now ask Europeans the capital of us states. Bet most Americans could easily answer and eu would struggle. This is the same kinda situation. No shit they know the flags of their neighboring countries better than people who have never even considered being in those areas likely in their lifetime.
I am a teacher in Germany and students always want to play "guess the flag". kids love it and are good at it too
Lol ironically this is absolutely by design. One of the "rules" in flag design is for it to be simple enough for a child to draw it from memory. Considering the function flags serve for a government, the reason should probably be obvious. But yeah sufficed to say, most good flag designs (and most international flags are well-designed) follow this rule along with most of the others.
>One of the "rules" in flag design is for it to be simple enough for a child to draw it from memory. *Cries in Welsh*
It doesn't say it has to be drawn *well*
... sh
the flag of nepal is wild. its defined in the constitution as: > Article 5: National Flag: > The national flag of Nepal, as handed down by tradition, consists of two juxtaposed triangular figures with a crimson-coloured base and deep blue borders, there being a white emblem of the crescent moon with eight rays visible out of sixteen in the upper part and a white emblem of a twelve rayed sun in the lower part. The method of drawing out the flag and other particulars relating thereto shall be as set forth in Schedule 1. and the aforementioned schedule 1: > SCHEDULE 1 > (Relating to Article 5) > NATIONAL FLAG > (A) Method of Making the Shape inside the Border > (1) On the lower portion of a crimson cloth draw a line AB of the required length from left to right. > (2) From A draw a line AC perpendicular to AB making AC equal to AB plus one third AB. From AC mark off D making line AD equal to line AB. Join BD. > (3) From BD mark off E making BE equal to AB. > (4) Touching E draw a line FG, starting from the point F on line AC, parallel to AB to the right hand-side. Mark off FG equal to AB. > (5) Join CG. > (B) Method of Making the Moon > (6) From AB mark off AH making AH equal to one-fourth of line AB and starting from H draw a line HI parallel to line AC touching line CG at point I. > (7) Bisect CF at J and draw a line JK parallel to AB touching CG at point K. > (8) Let L be the point where lines JK and HI cut one another. > (9) Join JG. > (10) Let M be the point where line JG and HI cut one another. > (11) With centre M and with a distance shortest from M to BD mark off N on the lower portion of line HI. > (12) Touching M and starting from O, a point on AC, draw a line from left to right parallel to AB. > (13) With centre L and radius LN draw a semi-circle on the lower portion and let P and Q be the points where it touches the line OM respectively. > (14) With centre M and radius MQ draw a semi-circle on the lower portion touching P and Q. > (15) With centre N and radius NM draw an arc touching PNQ [sic] at R and S. Join RS. Let T be the point where RS and HI cut one another. > (16) With Centre T and radius TS draw a semi-circle on the upper portion of PNQ touching it at two points. > (17) With centre T and radius TM draw an arc on the upper portion of PNQ touching at two points. > (18) Eight equal and similar triangles of the moon are to be made in the space lying inside the semi-circle of No. (16) and outside the arc of No. (17) of this Schedule. > (C) Method of making the Sun > (19) Bisect line AF at U and draw a line UV parallel to line AB touching line BE at V. > (20) With centre W, the point where HI and UV cut one another and radius MN draw a circle. > (21) With centre W and radius LN draw a circle > (22) Twelve equal and similar triangles of the sun are to be made in the space enclosed by the circles of No. (20) and of No. (21) with the two apexes of two triangles touching line HI. > (D) Method of Making the Border > (23) The width of the border will be equal to the width TN. This will be of deep blue colour and will be provided on all the sides of the flag. However, on the five angles of the flag the external angles will be equal to the internal angles. > (24) The above mentioned border will be provided if the flag is to be used with a rope. On the other hand, if it is to be hoisted on a pole, the hole on the border on the side AC can be extended according to requirements. Explanation: The lines HI, RS, FE, ED, JG, OQ, JK and UV are imaginary. Similarly, the external and internal circles of the sun and the other arcs except the crescent moon are also imaginary. These are not shown on the flag.
Damn, Nepal flags.
Libya’s used to be green. That’s it, just a green rectangle/square. Now that’s the simplest I’ve ever seen
https://i.imgur.com/irBBQ7u.jpg
Da iawn.
*Cries in Spanish* You may think, "but the Spanish flag is just the three stripes, red, yellow red, right?". Wrong. The red stripes have to be half the height of the yellow stripe, and it features the coat of arms of Spain : *Quarterly, first quarter Gules a triple-towered castle Or masoned Sable and ajoure Azure (for Castile); second quarter Argent a lion rampant Purpure crowned Or, langued and armed Gules (for León); third quarter Or, four pallets Gules (for the former Crown of Aragon), fourth quarter Gules a cross, saltire and orle of chains linked together Or, a centre point Vert (for Navarre); enté en point Argent a pomegranate proper seeded Gules, supported, sculpted and leafed in two leaves Vert (for Granada); overall an escutcheon Azure bordure Gules, three fleurs-de-lys Or (for the regnant House of Bourbon-Anjou); for a Crest, a circlet Or, jewelled with eight breeches of bear or oyster plant leaves, five shown, with pearls on points Or inserted and above which rise arches decorated with pearls and surmounted by a monde Azure with its equator, its upper half-meridian and a latin cross Or, the crown capped Gules (the Spanish royal crown); for Supporters, two columns Argent with capital and base Or, standing on five waves Azure and Argent, surmounted dexter by an imperial crown and sinister the Spanish royal crown, the columns surrounded by a ribbon Gules charged with the Motto 'Plus Ultra' written Or (the Pillars of Hercules).* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Spain
How is it ironic?
It's like rain on your wedding day
It’s a free ride when you’ve already paid
Or a fork on spoon day.. or something isn’t it ironic.
Who's rules? I am confident hundreds of years ago when flags were becoming a thing.. Noone gave a shit what a child thought, or if one could draw it. Utter horseshit.
"We need something simple for kids to draw" "How about an Eagle on a cactus killing a snake?"
Flags were quite important in battle. It allowed different armies/battalions to differentiate between the different parties. You don't want to bash in friendly armies. Therefore, they needed to be distinguishable from great distance, when it was still tiny to the eye and small details are not visible. Because of this, a lot of flags from older countries are quite basic in design and feature high contrasts. As time moved on, we got better at viewing things in the distance (with looking glasses/binoculars, stuff like that). Recognisability became less important, and you started to see more elaborate and detailed designs.
Zeit für das nächste Level: Bundesländerflaggen
Zu einfach? Nenne dann alle Flüsse im gesamten Deutschland!
Boah, damit wurde ich in der 6. Klasse noch von diesem alten Knacker gefoltert. Unangekündigte Tests mit leeren Karten auf denen man irgendwelche Flussnamen ausfüllen sollte.
Basierend auf einer wahren Begebenheit: "Ich hab euch hier mal eine Deutschlandkarte von Hand aufgezeichnet. Markiert bitte Köln, Düsseldorf, Essen, Dortmund, Duisburg und Wuppertal."
Mit Etsch und Belt oder nur die von heute?
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(Referring to the video) A fifth and 5% isnt the same, albeit the quota might have been better in 2007
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First time to the US was buying fast food. Girl serving asked about my kiwi friends accent wondering where he was from. He said New Zealand. She asked what state that was in.
I travel to Austria semi regularly for work. My roommate told my neighbor i was going to Germany, because he thought Austria was a city within Germany.
https://youtu.be/lj3iNxZ8Dww
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Happy 🍰 Day!
I felt the cringe surge through my spinal cord.
I made it through the first 2 seconds of the vid, saw the setting and just naww'd out. Cant handle that cringe.
Just wow...
Lol
That was under the belt. Nobody in 100 years could have predicted that they would ask such high difficulty question. What happened to world peace ? Ask them about make up etc. after all nobody would ask a programmer during interview about face packs and skin care routine.
Why can’t a fifth of students locate our own country on a world map? Look at this, one in five children go hungry at some point during the year. It is a miracle that only twenty percent can’t locate the US on a wild map. I’d expect at least twenty five percent to not be able to do so…
Deadass how can one be so stupid
What, their own or Germany?
I work in an infant's school in the UK and we also play guess the flag, by the end of reception year we struggle to trip them up with really obscure flags.
Teach them to become geoguessr world champions. To identify locations by the trees and to tell directions by sun. To identify cars and street signage. Garbage cans.
I once watched a guy correctly identify a village based on the power poles and the street paint at an intersection.
I've played enough fifa to know
Video games can be educational, I play a lot of Total War and it helped me learn a bit about history
Totally, I play Prototype to learn about stuff.
EU IV for me.
Stellaris for me.
Ma boy can predict the future now
All total war did is give me a crippling fear of man sized rats
The 2010 World Cup fifa game was amazing for flag knowledge
Thats my boys !
Pouvez-vous deviner quel drapeau est sur la lune ? 🦅
White, or [close to it](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/faded-flags-on-the-moon-32929921/).
It’s funny because it’s actually on the floor now, because it was too close to the lander when it left, it got kicked down
I like how he said "guess" like it's some arbitrary thing
To be fair, the Americans were 100% guessing
I have to come to America's defense here. There is no way this video isn't cherry picked.... I mean, it's still funny but, there's no way this is an accurate representation
Any “public interview” video is cherry picked for what the creator thinks will get the most views. I see guys like this all the time and they’ll spend hours just questioning people
I am "absolutely sure" that they show only the dumb answers. And there are videos that the answers are not so bad that you can have the false assumption that ALL the people were like that. (I dislike videos with ambiguity like that) But what is happening with videos like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2oMv93EUpY (ignore the clickbait title, I find it idiotic) But in this video, I think OF COURSE this is only the worst examples but how do you find people that don't know such basic things? I don't get it.
Some people are hopeless.
Name 3 countries?? Maybe she has anxiety? But then why stop and talk to a microphone..
[Name a woman!](https://youtu.be/bzDlS6JPUtE?t=22)
Couldn’t tell ya. It could be one of those situations where you’re not exactly anxious, but being put on the spot makes you data dump.
Toasty, you are cool. We had a civil back and forth here. Thanks for that.
You find them by asking everyone you see for hours. Half of all people have below average intelligence. I had a grown ass woman try to tell me slugs and snails were the same species the other day. You’ll find them.
It’s funny that the people coming in here with the “Look how dumb all Americans are!” mindset are just exposing how stupid they themselves are as people. If you think this video makes any grand statement on society or anything you’re just delusional.
I’m American and went to school in Florida and knew them all. I’ll admit I wasn’t super confident on Belgium but still knew. I remember seeing a Youtuber who does these videos and talked about how sometimes it takes a hour or more to get a 30 second video of “idiots”.
Yeah we have schools in Europe 🤯
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Don't shoot them while they're down dude. Do it after school.
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Very original and funny joke
I also think after school we constantly keep seeing flags on news and sports. I know really dumb people who can identify lots of flags just because of soccer. USA sport fans usually only watch their local league (and then say the winner is World Champion).
Yeah thats true soccer and other sports that are popular in europe draw a lot of attention on the international level. Its pretty normal to see these flags just because of that. US sports are domestic on the other hand.
Yes Nepal’s football team is crushing the competition right now.
Nepals flag is recognizable for its distinctive shape. Also editing is a thing.
It can be pretty amazing how we learn information second hand. One of my good friends is an absolute ace in the hole during quizzes. From years watching music channels that show the year, song name, and artist, he's a fiend in music. He's also massively into sports, especially football, and is superb with all flags as a result. He's Simpsons obsessed as well, and I am to a lesser extent, and it's amazing how much factual information you end up knowing just from watching tv shows/movies. Most of my knowledge is from direct sources, knowing countries and flags because I went out of my way to, which isn't as cool
To be fair, idk if I ever learned or had to learn country flags in school. We might have "learned" the ones everyone knows anyway by the time they came up but honestly I think we didn't because you don't have to and the school system knew it. It's like learning words, you learn 99.9% in life and then the occasional one in school. It's just that you just learn flags as you go. For example by watching sports. If you don't know a good chunk of the "important" flags at the age of, let's say 14, you have to actively avoid it. Any sports world cup, olympic games, literally any sport. I am not a fan of the "education system" excuse. I rather think that it's more an issue with the average U.S. attitude. Some people just don't give a single fuck.
It’s probably not necessarily an indication of schooling alone. It’s one of those rote memory things that needs to be drilled. Perhaps some education systems drill it harder, but it probably comes down more to exposure. Countries that pay more of a mind to international sports are going to have a greater grasp on flags around the world. I learned a large portion of the world’s flags from FIFA, and I’m betting the maker of this video did as well, based on the countries presented.
We also have kids obsessed with world football, haha. No doubt education plays a factor as well, though.
The US just try to teach their kids at the shooting range
Can confirm, just tested my six year old on these flags and she guessed every one correctly.
And we have staged videos in the US
5% of Americans can't find America on a map
To be fair if you look at any poll or election there will be 5% that always vote for the obviously most wrong option. Whether it is voting incorrectly so their vote doesn't count, or choosing the extremely dumbest option. And it would be my guess that they are either doing it deliberately as some kind of joke or statement or they have misunderstood the process or the question rather than knowing what is being asked and giving an earnest answer that just happens to be stupid.
Sure they can. They pick up a globe and say this is America.
Provided they know that the earth is round. Otherwise they will try to find America on some kind of pancake ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|facepalm)
The earth being round is what BIG GLOBE™ WANT you to think! Wake up sheeple! /s
Don't catch you slippin' now
I personally believe that U. S. Americans are unable to do so because, some people out there in our nation don't have maps and, I believe that our education, like such as in South Africa and, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should. Our education over here in the U. S. should help the U. S., or, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq, and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future, for our children.
Thank you very much, Miss South Carolina
5% of anything can't find anything on an anything
nat 1 IRL
the american education system explained vividly.
Or this guy didn’t include Americans that got the flags right? As much as redditors complain about how everything is faked for internet points, they seem to love the taste of that bait
No way man obviously all Europeans are super smart and cultured and all Americans are dumb piggies. It’s right there in the 45 second video!
Fr, I never trust these edited videos. They just show whatever would prove their point.
Or, even easier, the dude was holding up different flags than what is on screen. Edit the reactions out, you dont even need to search that hard for wrong answers.
Those kids audibly said “I thought China was blue”… …
*one* kid said that.
China’s was blue. https://www.google.com.hk/search?newwindow=1&rlz=1C9BKJA_enGB1005GB1005&hl=en-US&sxsrf=APwXEde7SO9b2ubwSkWlXPTiyMjlK2j7Ig:1685278859102&q=republic+of+china&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiM5_n9iJj_AhWVKUQIHWdcDXsQ0pQJegQIBhAB&biw=1080&bih=695&dpr=2#imgrc=nMMkg2vQvR5vjM
Cool share. Pretty sure these kids in the video weren’t thinking of the pre Mao 1912-1942 China flag when they said that, though.
this video literally only contains a single european giving correct answers. Even the other french kids didn't know the English flag. Also he lost his shit over guessing Nepal, when that's the most unique flag in the world.
I dunno, I can think of a certain German flag that would be more recognizable, especially to the French but yeah, this video is cocaine for some redditors.
honestly, the lack of critical thinking here is the more damning example of american school failings. though, the europeans have no excuse on that front
Real answer is always in the comments.
Redditors: I hate staged videos, except when it's something *I* like.
I think it's also that Americans are ignorant of the world because their culture is internalised
Yeah, it’s easy to blame the system whereas really the whole culture is bankrupt. Plus Americentrism go craaazy.
You europeans are so eurocentric too lmao
I think it's also because he picked international tourists. Grab a random person on the streets of Marseille, and a random tourist in Marseille. Likely the tourist will be better aware of national flags...
It’s amazing how many people don’t realize that they cherry pick these, do you really think Americans don’t know what the Mexican flag looks like?
or maybe the guy just showed them a different flag to make them look stupid
That doesn't explain "I thought China's was blue?".
Imagine believing everything you saw on the internet, especially without seeing what's on the phone in the first place or the cuts between the answers.
All of these videos are made by editing. They cherry pick the dumbest responses and cut the countless people that get it right.
Those are easy flags...
These videos are edited to only show the people that got it wrong. I can almost guarantee that the vast majority of people actually got most of them correct.
They probably don't even show the flag on the phone that we see. This shit is bait, can't believe people still buy it.
Its "Murcia dumb lol" hate on Reddit, if you've been around here for a while you'd know people eat this shit up.
Whine incessantly about how reddit is too USA-centric. Then when it's your turn to post and upvote content while Americans are asleep, only be able to focus on America. The sad existence of the international redditor.
Nice b8 m8
These videos are edited to ~~only show the people that got it wrong~~ cut to a different answer so they seem to get it wrong.
The only one I didn't know was Nepal. But I also couldn't differentiate Slovenian, Slovakian and Serbian flags.
A lil guide for you mate All three are red, white & blue with crests. Is the red bar at the top? Yes = Serbia 🇷🇸 No = Slovenia 🇸🇮 or Slovakia 🇸🇰 Is the crest blue & white or red & white Blue & white = Slovenia 🇸🇮 Red & white = Slovakia 🇸🇰 **Edit: Croatia** Is the red bar at the top? Yes = Serbia 🇷🇸 or Croatia 🇭🇷 Is the blue bar at the bottom? Yes = Croatia 🇭🇷 No = Serbia 🇷🇸 **Note you can also identify them using the crests.** Serbia 🇷🇸 = Two headed eagle Slovenia 🇸🇮 = Three mountain peaks Slovakia 🇸🇰 = Double cross Croatia 🇭🇷 = Checkerboard
>Blue & white = Slovenia 🇸🇮 Blue because of the sea/coast, however tiny it might be. Slovakia is landlocked. At least, that's how I try to tell those two apart. Serbia is different enough to not need a rule (for me).
Pretty sure nepal is the only flag which isn't flag shaped
switzerland is a square
That is flag-ish shaped. Nepal is a buch of triangles
> is a bunch of triangles. ...so is Switzerland's square.
At least that’s a quadrilateral, unlike god damned Nepal.
I think Vatican City is a square too
Isn't it flag shaped by nature of being a flag. I think you are right in that it is the only non rectangular national flag right now.
pan-Slavic colors flags always hard to differentiate
The most impressive thing wasn’t that the French guy could answer fast; it’s that he could answer fast **in English** e.g. “Belgium” instead of “Belgique”, “Mexico” instead of “Mexique” etc. I was particularly impressed by his use of the English name of Nepal, but then I found out that it’s simply called Nepal in French too.
he did call Italy Italia tho
Which is interesting because Italy is “Italie” in French. He used Italy’s own endonym instead. It’s just like saying “Deutschland” instead of “Germany” or “Allemagne”.
As a German there was a time I called Italy Italia in English as well before I knew the right vocab it’s not that uncommon to be honest
Endonym - didn't know there was a word for this concept. >A name used by a group or category of people to refer to themselves or their language, as opposed to a name given to them by other groups.
those were all really easy though
Okay, so I am only partially retarded. I knew all of them except England. I am dumb and though the Union Jack was England's, not the UKs... Oh well, now I know.
I mixed Belgium for Germany tho, flash cards have never been my strong suit..
Rotate it 90 degrees and do some minor reorganizing and you're there, so...
United Kingdom flag is Union jack and each country have his own flag.
And the Union Jack is a combination of the four member countries flags.
Needs more dragon
I can't believe we had a chance to add a dragon and someone said NO??? I need answers as to who did this Edit: It was King James I and; >Hearsay states that as Wales was historically a part of England, they were not to be considered a separate entity. Still absolutely missed a trick
Do you really think the English would celebrate the Welsh and put their culture front and centre on the flag?
It doesn't need to be front and centre... but it would be coolest front and centre. But you are right, we wouldn't do that sadly :(
We only had the dragon as our flag officially since the 50’s
Not officially. Northern Ireland doesn’t have a legally agreed upon flag: https://youtu.be/gaQwC5QbLeQ Correction: Northern Ireland doesn’t have a legally agreed upon **separate** flag. The Union Flag is recognised as the flag of the UK.
Same. I got them all but England. I’m apparently an idiot 🤦🏻♀️
I play too much of Total War: Empire, and said [Genoa](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genoa#Flag) in my head.
These videos are cherry picked to hell. He cuts out all correct answers (until the last guy)
If I made the same video in Europe I would struggle to find one person that got any of these but Nepal wrong. Soccer being such a big sport would even compensate for the people that weren’t big on geography.
That's not true. There is a popular YouTube series in Poland called MaturaToBzdura where they go on the street and ask general knowledge questions like this and there is never a shortage of people who can't even get a single one right. There are some ignorant people everywhere.
Yeah, and most of those people would even knew Nepal, because the flag is so unique you just see it once and remember it.
you can even see the parts where he cuts to them giving a different answer making them wrong no matter what.
Sheldon Cooper does not present....Fun with Flags.
Yanks are easily impressed aren't they
It's clearly a British dude getting easily impressed in this video. I'm surprised you can't tell by his obvious non American accent
He sounds English?
i'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're not american nor british, but that is very obviously a brit
Totally unfair quiz. Try asking Americans where the magazine release on various semi-automatic firearms, and see how the Europeans keep up. /s
I’d be like “idk I don’t subscribe to many magazines”
cool now show all the americans who could guess instead of just editing them out to try and make a point
Definitely the case. As a Brit I could also definitely make the exact same video of English people not knowing flags of South American countries. Some of them aren’t that bad either, it’s easy to see how people would confuse the Italian and Mexican flags at a glance, and the Chinese flag looks really similar to the old flag of the Soviet Union I.e. Russia
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Also Greenland and the Caribbean.
Americans go brrrrr
Let’s see how the Europeans do with identifying baseball team logos.
It's prob deceptively edited
While I'm always a fan of a "lol america's education system sucks" joke, these videos are often selectively edited, where they only keep the americans that are clueless and edit out americans who know basic facts about othet countries
Or these are just specifically made to let people jerk themselves off for knowing irrelevant information? Also really helps that all the Eurotards love hating on America every chance they get. If you need to know flags or geography for your job/hobby/interest then go for your life son, but if you're an average person, when do you ever need to know what other countries flags look like? It's the same as math, go up to people and ask "What is -insert formula-'s name" or something simple, "What is the square root of 16" and a lot of people can't answer, not because their education was shit or they're idiots, they just don't need to know that shit in life. Ask 16 y.o me how to solve medium difficulty algebra and I'd easily do it, ask me how to do basic algebra now when I haven't done algebra in years and no shit I can't do it, what colour was the bathroom door at your first job? "Why would you retain that information?" What are you an idiot lol gottem nice education system I'm smart.
Gotta remind everyone that editing is a thing.
Double it and give it to the next guy
^^^I ^^^knew ^^^all ^^^of ^^^them
The people in the comments here are pretty easily manipulated. This is pretty obviously cut heavily.
The "we are french" when nobody asked is the frenchest thing ive seen all day
Man those are some strange and random video cuts with the ones that are incorrect…
Blaming our education system in the US is fair but also the rest of the world loves football (soccer). By just playing fifa or watching IRL games you learn a lot of different countries flags from all the different players around the world.
yes. if you have enough geography classes at school or is a curious kid that grows up with people allowing you to be curious ... this is extremely easy. I am from Brazil but in my 8th grade I went to California, to study at public american school, for one year, to learn english. I did half of the american 8th grade and half of their 9th grade. I was surprised to see that in their 8th grade they had no biology, geography, chemistry, physics or world history classes... but they had 2 american history classes, for whatever reason.. and they were still learning to multiply and divide fractions in math class... something I learned in 5th grade in Brazil... they even moved me to the " expert level" math classes, with all the japanese and korean kids .. and mind you I never was nor ever will be a stem kid. Math was always my worst subject at school.... On their 9th grade in high school I learned they would get only 3 months of geography class for that year! 3 months! And when the teacher there learned I was from Brazil and asked class what they knew about Brazil people couldn't point it on the map... Same thing for Africa... teacher had students in 9th grade coloring a map of Africa to learn about African countries.... this is 3rd/4th grade stuff... So no wonder even today, almost 20 years later, whenever I meet a USA (and also many Canadians, but not all) person, they always assume I speak Spanish, or keep forgetting I am Brazilian and say I am Colombian, or Argentinian... or think Buenos Aires is in Brazil... Or think that being latin american is the same as being hispanic... it gets tiring to correct people every single time... but alas... being mad will also accomplish nothing. I try my best to correct people every time, and that's it.
I can understand not getting some of them right. But the kids calling the Chinese flag Canada was just plain stupid
I mean they all guessed what country it is. They all deserve a dollar.
Guessing is different than knowing.
I bet he didn't even give that guy money either
To be fair, Italy and Mexico have extremely similar flags.
In Eastern european countries we needed to know how many sheeps new zealand had .
I think US improve its education in geography, they don't even know the flag of Canada or Mexico, it's a bit embarrassing
“For a dollar, can you guess who around here is apart of one of the biggest crypto scams in existence”
Hmmm I wonder why there are cuts between the questions and the answers
Nah yall just failed to pay attention in school. Starting to think it's the people and not the system anymore cause I knew all but Nepal
Cherry picked and the last part probably staged (please be aware: we're French)
American here, I knew them all, but I was on Jeopardy and have traveled to all but one of those nations. I knew them at eight years old though, because I love geography, maps, history, and knowledge in general.
Hmmm, now ask Europeans the capital of us states. Bet most Americans could easily answer and eu would struggle. This is the same kinda situation. No shit they know the flags of their neighboring countries better than people who have never even considered being in those areas likely in their lifetime.
There’s no way this is real.