American Reacts to Americans FAILING Basic Questions About Canada

John Bartlet Brebner (1895–1957), a Canadian historian, famously said, "Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well-informed about the United States." It's always been this way. I blame the U.S. education system, not Americans.

I used to get offended by videos like this until I realized that Americans are just as clueless about their own country as they are about Canada. So really, it's nothing personal...

In the words of Canadian comedian, Simon Rackoff, “we don’t mind that Americans don’t know much about us - we’ve seen what happens to countries you take an interest in!”

I had a friend who worked at the US/Canada border (New York/Ontario). She had some funny stories to tell. One American couple arrived perplexed because they could not understand why it was so darn hot and no snow in July. They had brought snow gear, sweaters, ski gear. Apparently, they thought that the weather underwent a cosmic shift when you travel that 3km over the St. Lawrence River.

Majority of Americans barely know their own country's history. How can we expect them to know Canada's?

About 20 years ago I was talking to an American lady who asked me where I was from, so I told her I was from Canada. She said oh yeah she'd heard of that place, it is over there beside China someplace. I said no, it is on the other side of the US's northern border, and then she totally lost it, started yelling about how there is nothing there and that I wasn't fooling her any.

Celine Dion is (for Canadian) know as well for one refusing an American award because she was called American (US citizen I should specify) instead of Canadian. I have to say that I was proud of this as she maintained her origin.

in 1983, I went to the US. People there asked me how long our Igloos lasted before melting. I went along with it, and told them I walked 20 miles in Snow Shoes, then traveled 200 miles by Dogsled, then got on a Snowmobile to get to a place where I was able to get a Car.... The 1st Trip across the Border was also the Last

To all of my fellow Canadians HAPPY CANADA DAY!!! I am so proud to be a Canadian and am happy to have found this channel. Keep going Tyler.

Tyler, you have earned the title of an honorary Canadian good sir.

As a Canadian kid in the 80's, I had to learn all the states and capitals too some time in primary school.

Hockey is Canadian's official winter national sport and lacrosse is Canada's summer national sport.

Me before it started: How bad can it be? Lady: Is Canadian a language? Me: I was too kind Edit: I literally once saw a quiz that asked something about a state in Canada and it wasn’t a trick question…

An American friend of mine used to debate about Canada vs U.S. I told him one day that Americans barely understand what happens outside their county, let alone global politics. He scoffed at it until he went back to Missouri. He came back and apologized

As a Canadian, I'm impressed that you knew about Lacross even existing. I think we learned how to play it in grade schools. Once.

I remember a few years back we went for a trip into the US, stayed just outside of Chicago, and went out for breakfast the next morning. The waitress asked where we were from, we said Canada...wow she said, you speak really good english. A bit stunned, we asked what she thought we spoke, she replied french. I think we chuckled and then she vanished and we had a different waitress :)

The Beaver is important because of the fur trade in 17th to the mid-19th centuries

Just asked my 14 year old grandson who the President of the US is? No hesitation - Biden. So yes, most Canadians know more about the US than the US citizens know about Canada. Thank you for doing these videos. I am blessed to live in a wonderful country.

You're totally right - the national sport used to be Lacrosse. Now it's Hockey for winter & Lacrosse for Summer. They actually passed a bill in 1994. We don't have a national dish, but Poutine has become the most famous, I think because it's mentioned so much on American TV. Other dishes that are well known are Butter Tarts, Nanaimo Bars, and Beavertails.

In Canadian High-schools - during my high-school years - "Social Studies" was split into History and Geography. And we studied the History and Geography of the ENTIRE WORLD - starting with the ancient Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, etc., etc., etc. This included not only their Geography, Agriculture, Art, History, etc. - but also their mythology. We were THOROUGH. In Grades 11 & 12 - History and Geography were two separate classes - and we concentrated on the History & Geography of the Americas (South, Central, North) - from the time of "discovery" 450 yrs ago up to the middle of the Cold War - which was still going on when I graduated. So we LEARNED - as much about the US as we did about Canada. At one time - the 49th parallel was the world's longest undefended International Border (Bush put an end to that), and we didn't need passports to pass freely back & forth across that Border. To this day - I can recall most of what I learned about the US Constitution. I know stuff about it that most US'ers don't know - including the Federalist Papers that set out the supporting arguments for each of the Amendments. It astonishes me how many US'ers are completely unaware of this aspect of THEIR Constitution they purport to revere and venerate. And yes - Canada has a Constitution - as do almost ALL of the world's 195 countries - MOST of which are CENTURIES older than the US Constitution. The state of the US Education system IS your responsibility. It's the responsibility of everyone who has ever gone to school, or has become a parent with children in school. In Canada - we have a NATIONAL standardised education system. Funds are allocated from General Revenue based on one factor alone - population. NOT (as in the US) on a county's income tax bracket - where the richest counties get the best teachers and up-to-date books, computers, etc. In Canada - Education is one of our two "Socialised" essential services (Health Care being the other) - so EVERY child/student has access to the same across-the-board education to the end of Grade 12. I haven't been to the US since the onset of COVID - when the Border was closed, and T-Rumpf intended to station US Troops along the Border. Trudeau let him know that that was not the best idea he'd ever had - and T-Rumpf backed down on that intention. But relations have been strained since then. So many US TV shows are staffed by Canadian writers - Silicon Valley is staffed by Canadian code hackers - Video game creators seem to be mostly Canadians - Mid-Wife-Trained Nurses in US teaching Hospitals are mostly Canadians - most of the students (and most - if not ALL the RA's) in Applied Maths & Physics at CalTech - are STILL mostly Canadians. I really hope that Biden has a 2nd term - and that Drl Jill Biden DOES something about laying the groundwork for fixing the US Education "system."