Thread: Mark Dice: Americans don't know why we celebrate the 4th of July

On one level, ignorance of this magnitude is depressing indeed. But I wonder how many people in a similar UK vox pop would be able to answer the question: "What was the Magna Carta?"

I'm willing to bet a similar outcome to the Mark Dice video.

(The second Dice video was somewhat disingenuous. If some random guy in the street wandered up to me, poked a camera in my face, and offered a 'genuine' gold Canadian coin to me for a tiny fraction of its supposed worth, I too would say no. Anyone saying yes on face value is the bigger fool and likely one of those who enjoys betting on which cup the pea is under!)

Originally Posted by majurey

On one level, ignorance of this magnitude is depressing indeed. But I wonder how many people in a similar UK vox pop would be able to answer the question: "What was the Magna Carta?"

I'm willing to bet a similar outcome to the Mark Dice video.

(The second Dice video was somewhat disingenuous. If some random guy in the street wandered up to me, poked a camera in my face, and offered a 'genuine' gold Canadian coin to me for a tiny fraction of its supposed worth, I too would say no. Anyone saying yes on face value is the bigger fool and likely one of those who enjoys betting on which cup the pea is under!)

In Fairness mark, yes you may be possibly right about the UK and Magna Carta the crucial difference being that The UK doesn't have a Magna Carta day that is widely celebrated as the 4th of July is here.

A big deal is made of the 4th of July ( and rightly so IMHO) and yet there are plenty of adults walking around this country who have no idea why they are celebrating it. I find that saddening and not a little worrying.

That's really sad not knowing of our independence from Britian.
Just wondering though do they have a 4th of July in England??????

Trying to remember all this holiday nonsense is too mentally taxing besides most of us real americans know why we celebrate. July 4th to shoot guns in the air and set off fireworks, Christmas to get presents,Thanksgiving to eat a lot of food, presidents day to get a day off of work. What more do you need to know right?

Sure there are a lot of people that don't know. I wonder how many people that did know weren't included in the video?
The only thing the video proves is that there are some people that don't know why we celebrate Independence Day. Is that such a shocker?

It would be easy enough to make a video like this proving people's stupidity about anything. Just find a few clueless gems, and leave everyone else out. I might make one proving how Americans don't know how to tie their shoes.

I'm Canadian, and I knew most of those answers. The thing is that you could find the same number of people in Canada who don't know who Sir John A. MacDonald is. In any case though, I would be interested in finding out how long it took him to find enough people who didn't know to make a video segment that long.

Originally Posted by paco

That's really sad not knowing of our independence from Britian.
Just wondering though do they have a 4th of July in England??????

No, 4th of July is strictly American. Just like the 1st of July is strictly Canadian.

Originally Posted by WongKonPow

In any case though, I would be interested in finding out how long it took him to find enough people who didn't know to make a video segment that long.

My thoughts exactly!

Originally Posted by paco

That's really sad not knowing of our independence from Britian.
Just wondering though do they have a 4th of July in England??????

Yes we have a 4th July every year. Comes after the 3rd and before the 5th...

Originally Posted by Galopede

Yes we have a 4th July every year. Comes after the 3rd and before the 5th...

I was wondering when i'd get a reply. Cheers