How many people were asked that question?

Ask 100 people who won ww1 or ww2 and at least 10% wont know not just Americans.

Ha, and to think that these are the same people that voted for Obama!

» What year was 9/11?

The question in the video is is not the same question being asked by the OP in this thread, keyword being "attacks".
The way the question is being asked here is the same as asking:
"What year is your birthday?"

..to which the answer is, EVERY YEAR!

Originally posted by fooffstarr
Problem is, as this video is an example of, that the average US citizen either feels powerless or simply doesn't care about what their country does to them or other nations.

I'm still confused why you're taking this so seriously, and think that 8-9 out of maybe 100+ asked is the "average US citizen", like you so loosely put it. You talk about the media, and how we're all "brainwashed" by it, yet, you can't figure out a simple editing bit.

I mean, it's easy to say you know how the world should be run while typing stuff out on the internet, but what exactly do you do to help the world? Its just a funny bit, bro, nothing more.....

im american. i dont get along with these people. but you are naive to think it is the american people. maybe its the education system! not a place on the globe

This reminds me of the movie "Idiocracy"

I wonder why people tend to forget big stuff. I mean, it was all over world news for a long period, and nobody could get away from the news.

Which countries are in the axis of evil?

idiot 1: Jerusalem.
idiot 2: Jerusalem?

Ok, theres more than one...

Really people? I mean how do you function on a day to day basis?

I was talking to this girl I worked with about one of our friends who was moving to Israel and she says, "How is she going to stay on her diet? Don't they eat a lot of pork there?".

It turns out she didn't know that Israel was the Jewish state. I was trying to explain to her how important it was for her to know what was happening in the middle east, since it was at the height of the 2008 election. "How am I supposed to know that Israel is a Jewish state?? was her response. At that point I said screw it, and ordered a couple shots.

blah blah blah you idiots from other countries to love to laugh at the "stupid things americans do" but i GUARANTEE YOU if you went around the streets of your own country asking these questions you'd get some pretty stupid responses too. Its not just america the world is full of idiots.

I've also reported this post and a bunch of you anti american idiots posts too because you guys are extremely rude. I hope you all get banned.

As matter of fact on youtube they have one of these same videos going around the streets on london i think and they are asking the same questions and most the responses are RETARDED. So its not just america.

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9/11 happens every year, right between 9/10 and 9/12.
2nd.

wow, I #ing hate living in America. I am NOT THIS #ING STUPID OK??? I know all of this, NYers are stupid by the way.

and btw this thing is so set up they are asking people who are in a huge hurry and they are asking people getting in their cars... etc. I'd do the same thing as these people if asked a question id just say the first thing that poped in my head or id just say get the hell outta here.

This video is not an indicator of how smart our entire nation is, and if you use this video as a indicator of how smart we are, you are actually the idiot, not us americans.

It's not just a few people on tv that are this ignorant. I have noticed that no matter where you are, big city, little town, a farm, many people have absolutely no idea what is going on in the world. The standards of education in the U.S has been getting lower and lower for decades. To much grading on a curve, or making it easy for the students to pass their tests. I even noticed that this is going on in universities as well. "Let's raise the cost of tuition and make the teachers salaries bigger, but let's make it easier for the students so we can keep getting money from them!" It's not so much the universities fault, it's the elementary and high schools that are doing this. They don't prepare students for higher education probably, only the determined students are the only ones trying to learn while the rest are allowed to get by.

People are more interested in pop culture, video games, "reality" tv shows, and not to knock sport fans but i know people that will sit and watch any sport they can find on tv throughout the day and nothing else. But ask them about politics, "oh that crap is boring, they don't do nuthin anyways", or if you bring up world war one or two, people shrug and say "well we nuked the germans and won the whole thing" you bring up anything about history, and you get the same response about politics "that stuff is boring, who cares that's the past and what's that got to do with what's going on now?"

Lot of people don't even know who Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are, most people only know the first and second amendment of the constitution, many people don't know who Malcom X was, many people don't know who Issac Newton was and i've had some tell me he was a musician. This isn't just an American thing, I've met people from other countries and they are pretty clueless about where they came from.

Blacks born in the U.S that refer to themselves as African-Americans can't even tell you what part of Africa their roots can be traced back to, in fact many don't even know Africa has different countries in it. I've talked to many Mexicans, and they have no idea that Spain once occupied their home country, and same can be said about Puerto Ricans when they say they are "Pure Puerto Ricans" not knowing a single bit of their history. I could go on forever obviously. But as an American, I really get made when I see this kind of thing on tv. Makes me very unproud to be associated with these idiots.

Originally posted by belfast
How many people were asked that question?

Ask 100 people who won ww1 or ww2 and at least 10% wont know not just Americans.

exxactly..

ALSO I guarantee in this video TONS OF PEOPLE responded with the right answer and they dont show the ones of people responding correctly.

And also I dont even see what the big deal is A LOT, I MEAN A LOT of people get stuff with dates confused, thats one of the most common things to forget or get confused about. And with everyone, not just americans.

[edit on 14-6-2009 by Jeasaaone]

Originally posted by Darth Lumina
It's not just a few people on tv that are this ignorant. I have noticed that no matter where you are, big city, little town, a farm, many people have absolutely no idea what is going on in the world. The standards of education in the U.S has been getting lower and lower for decades. To much grading on a curve, or making it easy for the students to pass their tests. I even noticed that this is going on in universities as well. "Let's raise the cost of tuition and make the teachers salaries bigger, but let's make it easier for the students so we can keep getting money from them!" It's not so much the universities fault, it's the elementary and high schools that are doing this. They don't prepare students for higher education probably, only the determined students are the only ones trying to learn while the rest are allowed to get by.

People are more interested in pop culture, video games, "reality" tv shows, and not to knock sport fans but i know people that will sit and watch any sport they can find on tv throughout the day and nothing else. But ask them about politics, "oh that crap is boring, they don't do nuthin anyways", or if you bring up world war one or two, people shrug and say "well we nuked the germans and won the whole thing" you bring up anything about history, and you get the same response about politics "that stuff is boring, who cares that's the past and what's that got to do with what's going on now?"

Lot of people don't even know who Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are, most people only know the first and second amendment of the constitution, many people don't know who Malcom X was, many people don't know who Issac Newton was and i've had some tell me he was a musician. This isn't just an American thing, I've met people from other countries and they are pretty clueless about where they came from.

Blacks born in the U.S that refer to themselves as African-Americans can't even tell you what part of Africa their roots can be traced back to, in fact many don't even know Africa has different countries in it. I've talked to many Mexicans, and they have no idea that Spain once occupied their home country, and same can be said about Puerto Ricans when they say they are "Pure Puerto Ricans" not knowing a single bit of their history. I could go on forever obviously. But as an American, I really get made when I see this kind of thing on tv. Makes me very unproud to be associated with these idiots.

I'm sorry man I didnt read all this but go ANYWHERE in the world and you'll find tons of people who don't know what is going on the world.

Edit: nevermind iread your post wrong.

[edit on 14-6-2009 by Jeasaaone]