I think there's like a psychological phenomena that happens to certain people when they get in front of a camera and microphone where they think they're being tricked or something, so they'll just say off the wall shit as a guess to an obvious question
Because I have never met any people lacking knowledge at this level in my entire life
I think it's just that when those types of videos are made, they probably interview 100 people and only show the top 2 or 3 stupidest responses. It wouldn't make for very good entertainment to ask randos "who did the US fight in WW2" and then show 10 consecutive people saying "the Nazis, obviously"
Death to America
I mean it's definitely cherry-picked, but anyone would know these answers even without education if they are at all participating within the pop culture of the US at basically any point.
It's either people saying dumb shit because they're confused by the situation, some people saying dumb shit because they're annoyed at the man on the street interview, or they're just acting.
Like there's just no way anyone could possibly think these things lol while also knowing what the event is referring to.
Example: The 4th of July as an extent holiday in the US is basically unavoidable, it's impossible for a person to legitimately think it had anything to do with Koreans or took place in the 80s lol
Maybe, someone living in a cave, having just seen the surface and then immediately interviewed may say something like "what are you talking about" but not what we got here lol
just because the 4th of july is a giant unavoidable event doesn't mean you're bombarded with actual facts about it. most the 21st century its been jizzing on troops and :frothingfash: about muslims hating freeeeedom
its entirely possible to absorb that kinda stuff to the exclusion of practical historical knowledge. when do people who aren't extremely fucking boring actually say 'we're celebrating this july 4th because they signed the dec. of independence, from Britain, for reasons x, y, z.'?
also since we use such a limited stable of words to describe wars, something as simple as someone hearing about the Korean war of independence, and the US war in Korea being asked 'who we fought in the war of independence' nets: US v. Korea :thonk: which is true if you say Koreans were the ones fighting for independence
But, yeah, that's just them being confused by the question then for some reason which I think is possible
you can't be anything but confused by the question and piece together your answer from half-remembered facts when you don't know anything about the question
or you could say you don't know but we're yankees that'd be far too humble for us
Fuck you're probably right about this. It's a bit concerning
Example: The 4th of July as an extent holiday in the US is basically unavoidable, it’s impossible for a person to legitimately think it had anything to do with Koreans or took place in the 80s lol
ive never learned anything about history on the 4th of july. its just the day where people blow shit up and abuse animals
I have no idea, maybe you're the cave being I referenced then. Still did anything lead you to believe Korea and the 80s had anything to do with it
true that ive never heard anything about korea or the 80s on the 4th of july
I'm trying to think about it more and you're right there really is no direct references to what any of it means. Just like bits of scattered information
What the hell
It sounds right to me, but I will still never get enough of Am*ricans saying incredibly wrong things about history and geography.
Yeah it's still a funny bit, just quite exaggerated is my point
Because I have never met any people lacking knowledge at this level in my entire life
lol I have
this level of knowledge is unironically what even the smartest Americans have of any non-white country
I once had a student, 18 or 19, who wrote an essay where he mentioned Vladimir Putin was the ruler of medieval England. I asked the student about this and it took me a few minutes and a Google to convince them they were wrong.
Another time, I had a student (a 20 something poc liberal woman) who wrote an essay about how egalitarian and enlightened the Spartans were. She was completely unaware of the Helots, pedastry etc. She was easier to convince.
Those two examples stand out the most.
Vladimir the Great is a possible confusion there with the first one, not England but a rule associated with dark age Christianity so maybe
And the second one I totally understand because there's a ton of fascist propaganda that love the Spartans so probably just got some of that at some point
Neither of these are as bad as US independence from Korea in the 80s.
That's fair. Knowing basic facts about your own country's history is a much lower bar.
True, I think if I was presented with dude on the street I would be tempted to say something like "The USA and DPRK both achieved independence from the ROK which is why both of their colors are red white and blue, and both flags feature stars and bars"
I work with people who have advanced degrees who couldn't find England on a map or give you the events of any year before their birth. I'd be surprised if any of them knew the years WW1 was fought.
I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse that I got a quality education
Hall monitors are fash authoritarians. No assistant principals, no masters!
Ok I'm ashamed that when the girl said Pearl Harbor was in the 80s I thought "lol she doesn't know it was in 1939" but it was in 1941...
Ya gotta remember that the US sat on its ass for the first two years of the war and then spent the next 80 years getting mad at the soviets for Molotov-Ribbontrop
Yes it doesn't make sense that the US would've been involved almost as soon as it started.
Just trying to figure out if the Nazis were really that bad for a couple years
idk where people get off thinking africa & italy were some kinda joke, Italy was out of the war by the end of '43 with half a million germans off the eastern front
"december seventh, nineteen forty one, a date which will live in infamy!"
apparently not lmao
I knew it was going to be bad but holy shit. Yes, they're probably finding the least informed people possible but still some of this is absolutely nuts
That first guy (at least when I first got recommended his TikToks) suspiciously only had people of color interviewed. More than a few looked possibly homeless and/or shitfaced drunk/high.
Like 80% were POC who would get 0 answers right then edit. While when he did have a white person they showed them get at least 1 right, until they got one wrong then they edit.
The video is funny and very well edited, but this kind of ignorance was always the goal and is actually terrifying.
Once Desantis gets through with gutting Florida's education the only thing the DesantisJugend will know about the 20th century is that communism killed eleven thousand million Christians.
Teachers are just babysitters so let's make that even more thoroughly true as a matter of national policy. :so-true: :solidarity: :grillman: :solidarity: :porky-happy:
These types of interviews always make people seem to stupid, but you just know they aren’t including the 95% of responses that were more reasonable
Is it though? The least educated of society have almost no power or influence whatsoever and are probably just impoverished
I’m pretty sure the problem are the ones who know all too well where Iraq is on a map
if someone tries to do a man-on-the-street trivia quiz at you, you have a responsibility to say something really stupid so they get the clip they need and they don't have to keep harassing more strangers with the same questions
