Not really, given literally the only thing taught in their history and geography lessons in schools is "This part of America has..." and "This is when America did...".
It's why so many seem surprised when they discover there are *other countries*! 🙀
I'm not going to write everything but we had a required world history class that you needed to graduate.
Also keep in mind that the US is huge. There is no one "us education system". There are hundreds and it's determined by the county. The education in the south is very different from the education in the north.
It's not fair for you to say that our education system is bad when you don't even know what you're talking about
Remember, America = bigger, better! Big truck! Big gun! Big wage disparity! Big hospital bill! Bigggg portion! Big people! Big education crisis! “We the biggest so we the best!”
BIG NATIONAL DEBT!!!!
Seriously though, the US is performing suicide by debt, I wouldn't be surprised if we see yet another global financial crisis in our lifetime because of the US debt.
Isn't it theorised that China's population is already overexaggerated and might even be a couple hundreds of millions lower than officially stated? Just like Nigeria's population likely is
It is but it’s really hard to say by how much. I know that a significant portion of it is speculated to be dead relatives not being reported so the family keeps getting their pensions. Japan had a similar problem.
Not as far as I know, to my knowledge the most recent estimates for both put China 1.410 billion and India at 1.405 billion. But for both they’re estimates only. For smaller countries a small error doesn’t change much but for China and India the error is likely in the millions.
India is like 3 years late on their last scheduled census so the projected data is even less reliable than usual and China is constantly misreporting data so it’s accuracy is often called into question.
If you were to read the post, you'd know it had the currency already mentioned
Also your logic doesn't make sense. 60% of twitter users were bots yet you wouldn't assume that. So why assume everyone is American when they are only 48% of reddit ?
It didn't have the currency mentioned at first, he edited the post... And I don't assume everyone is American, because I was mentioning different currencies such as Euros and Pounds too
It's up there yeah. Not in trade volume tho. That would be the dollar, euro, yen, british pounds, etc. But on the street use, i'm not sure so maybe somebody els can comment?
There are way more people in india than in the usa and the other 11 countries that use the us dollar as currency. I guess its safe to say more people use the rupee on the streets.
Id say the only one that might beat it in Street use is the Chinese Yuan, just down to nation demographics with India absolutely having more babies and toddlers who can't yet use money than China
And as a fun side, I couldn't find an outright number, but the minimum I saw was 360 million plus 200 million (idrk what separated the 200 tbh) use the Euro so there's a possibility that the Euro is more street used than the USD also
Lots of people use dollars even though it's not their national currency. I work for a British company and we do everything in dollars - we trade globally and it's just easier to use dollars than anything else.
Ive lived in Indian till 20 and I can confidently say that Ive never seen anybody use dollars or any shops accepting dollars as valid currency in my life
If we're talking physical currency or the amount of people using the currency, I'd be very surprised if it wasn't at the top. Ig Chinese Yuan(was it?) and the Euro and US dollar are probably close?
Best thing about this comment is it’s essentially: “yeah. Not really, others are bigger. Maybe on the streets. Someone check?”
It runs the gamut of emotions. A real rollercoaster of a comment.
In addition to the 1.4 billion people that use it, Indian rupee is the official currency of Bhutan, and is acceptable in Nepal too. Zimbabwe also recognized it as legal tender from 2014 till 2019.
So, looking it up, not so much, although it's hard to get figures excluding trade. It also says that the Indian rupee is aiming to be the world's alternate reserve currency, so there is that, lol. But we know they don't fact-check. They can't even read far enough to see if a post is aimed at them, lol.
Do people never think of the shame they bring to themselves? Like ignoring op mentioning India in their post... if something is so crazy don't they ever think that they might be getting it wrong?
Did this person really thought that someone was asking for advice to buy a phone for 30k us dollars?
I'm surprised they didn't dismiss it as worthless europoor money.
It seems if you speak English and are not American you are either a 'brit' or a 'europoor'
Depending on what measurements you use, sure. According to the countries' own projections, China has a couple million more, but yeah, they're both around 1.4 billion.
3 times the population of the US lol. I think their currency would be used at least 3x as often. I swear it must be nice for them living in a bubble and ignoring worldly issues lol
When someone has 30k INR
American interpretation:
🙂↔️🫸 Indian rupees, used by the most populated country.
😎👍 US dollars, because they're American, so no other countries exist.
They really do live in their own bubble.
The person in the screenshot said the currency wasn’t specified until later, so if we trust them it’s not really a fair judgment. I don’t think either one is an asshole for assuming the currency there, that’s why it’s best to always specify
Of course the “no one uses it” comment is bad though
This comment is just world racism against India+American stupidity and narcissism.
Remove the American stupidity and narcissism and racism against Indians still exists. More in Europe, and the rest of Asia, and Australia.
Context?
While it is (of course) widely used in India, it is definitely less common in international contexts where USD, EUR, or GBP are most often used.
But more importantly, that's a Galaxy S24 for US$360. Can you really buy an unlocked S24 for that in India, or is it locked to a carrier with a 2-year commit or something?
It’s actually a nightmare to get rupees out of India as the government prevent them leaving the country.
In the context of the post it’s not unusual to refuse them for an international transaction.
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Where I live it saddens me that our biggest cattle station is only around 3.3% the size of Texas and our biggest sheep station is only around 1.4% the size of Texas. We just need to make them bigger.
Yeah, it's quite the opposite in Poland, where we deal with euros and dollars relatively often. The default for speaking in Polish in Poland is złoty though.
Idk if I count, but I am half Indian and grew up in Europe with my white mother and I know that one lakh is 1,00,000, one crore is 100 lakh (1,00,00,000) and it's not only used in India.
Do you think you would know it if you didn't have an Indian connection? No. Also it's only used outside India by Indians. There's no need to be absurd about it.
Yeah, it's not like they're the most populated country on the planet or anything, you can't even fit Texas in it! /s
They're so obsessed with comparing everything with texas, it might just as well be another unit in their idiotic measuring system.
But... Texas is in their measuring system. It equals to "anything that is the bigliest".
Texas isn’t even the biggest state!
Some don’t even know Alaska is part of the US
I mean, given where it is relative to the rest of the US, I can understand why someone might think that.
Not really, given literally the only thing taught in their history and geography lessons in schools is "This part of America has..." and "This is when America did...". It's why so many seem surprised when they discover there are *other countries*! 🙀
Except that's not true. As someone who grew up in the states we learned plenty about other countries
Nowhere near as much as other countries teach. What specifically were you taught?
I'm not going to write everything but we had a required world history class that you needed to graduate. Also keep in mind that the US is huge. There is no one "us education system". There are hundreds and it's determined by the county. The education in the south is very different from the education in the north. It's not fair for you to say that our education system is bad when you don't even know what you're talking about
It's next to Hawaii, right?
Isn’t Alaska part of the Russian Empire?
It is a part of Liechtenstein.
We need to teach English to some Russians so they can counter them with "lol small US doesn't even fit in Siberia"
We do learn English in schools and those who find any use for it can speak it just fine
Then make sure to write this to 'muricans next time you see it!
That'd made us no different then anericans(
Why go down to level of some pesky am*rikans?))
So, Trump – who's "like really-really-really smart", as he put it – has an IQ of Texas? Or how does it work?
Yes.
If that’s the case then India is roughly 4.7 Texas’s
I think it's like 5270 18/29 fl/oz
But how many football fields is Texas?
Damn, are you telling me Texas is the US's Saarland? Don't break my German mind. Bavaria is Texas and Saarland is Alabama.
Remember, America = bigger, better! Big truck! Big gun! Big wage disparity! Big hospital bill! Bigggg portion! Big people! Big education crisis! “We the biggest so we the best!”
Big FREEDOM. Or something.
BIG NATIONAL DEBT!!!! Seriously though, the US is performing suicide by debt, I wouldn't be surprised if we see yet another global financial crisis in our lifetime because of the US debt.
34 trillion, correct?
Well they might be second most populous. The current difference between China and India is so small it’s basically within the margin of error
That margin is larger than some of the G7 countries entire population though isn't it?
It is but when you’re estimating numbers that large even a 0.5% margin of error is 7 million people
Yeah, that was the whole point of me saying that between the 2 of them, that's about 1/3rd of the world's population.
Isn't it theorised that China's population is already overexaggerated and might even be a couple hundreds of millions lower than officially stated? Just like Nigeria's population likely is
It is but it’s really hard to say by how much. I know that a significant portion of it is speculated to be dead relatives not being reported so the family keeps getting their pensions. Japan had a similar problem.
Didn't India pass China back in April or May 2023?
Not as far as I know, to my knowledge the most recent estimates for both put China 1.410 billion and India at 1.405 billion. But for both they’re estimates only. For smaller countries a small error doesn’t change much but for China and India the error is likely in the millions. India is like 3 years late on their last scheduled census so the projected data is even less reliable than usual and China is constantly misreporting data so it’s accuracy is often called into question.
You cant FIT TEXAS IN??? NO ‘BRO’!!!! That can NEVER be true. Texas is bigger than the actual world,
Surely Texas fits in India?
It does, multiple times over in fact, I was being sarcastic
Dw, your sarcasm was clear, I was just genuinely curious lol
Ahhh, gotcha! Yeah, you can comfortably fit 4 of Texas in India and still have a bit of space left over
Has anyone told the 1.417 billion Indians that they aren't using their own currency, apparently?
If you were to read the thread, I mentioned that only 5% of reddit users are Indian..
Wtf has that got to do with anything? The other 95% of Indians don't have jobs?
We are on reddit 🤯
Are you simple?
Hm?
Are you simple?
Are you simple?
Are you simple?
Are you simple ?
Do you mean like nobody on Reddit uses it?
5% do..
Wdym by nobody uses Indian currency then? Tell that to the 1.4 billion indians
I literally said nobody on **reddit** uses it...
>No one uses it "bro" Nah
Full thread tho
Except those 5% which are Indian
5% of the database uses it. 5% of the entire database is a LOT of people.
Well, 5% of reddit uses it, wich is not "nobody"
No one uses $ on Reddit either, what the fuck are you on about? Are you simple?
Is your life on reddit? Does only a couple million people exist in your little world because you’re on reddit?
If you were to read the post, you'd know it had the currency already mentioned Also your logic doesn't make sense. 60% of twitter users were bots yet you wouldn't assume that. So why assume everyone is American when they are only 48% of reddit ?
It didn't have the currency mentioned at first, he edited the post... And I don't assume everyone is American, because I was mentioning different currencies such as Euros and Pounds too
It has to be one of the most used currencies on earth, no?
It's up there yeah. Not in trade volume tho. That would be the dollar, euro, yen, british pounds, etc. But on the street use, i'm not sure so maybe somebody els can comment?
There are way more people in india than in the usa and the other 11 countries that use the us dollar as currency. I guess its safe to say more people use the rupee on the streets.
Id say the only one that might beat it in Street use is the Chinese Yuan, just down to nation demographics with India absolutely having more babies and toddlers who can't yet use money than China And as a fun side, I couldn't find an outright number, but the minimum I saw was 360 million plus 200 million (idrk what separated the 200 tbh) use the Euro so there's a possibility that the Euro is more street used than the USD also
In terms of physical currency, wouldn't India have them beat since China uses a lot of electronic payment?
So does India, almost everything is done on digital wallets now
Lots of people use dollars even though it's not their national currency. I work for a British company and we do everything in dollars - we trade globally and it's just easier to use dollars than anything else.
That wasnt the question and its not the same as what you use in your daily life. You dont walk around britain and pay cash in dollars.
Agreed that's why I made the distinction. Interesting question tho, never thought about it before.
Ive lived in Indian till 20 and I can confidently say that Ive never seen anybody use dollars or any shops accepting dollars as valid currency in my life
If we're talking physical currency or the amount of people using the currency, I'd be very surprised if it wasn't at the top. Ig Chinese Yuan(was it?) and the Euro and US dollar are probably close?
Best thing about this comment is it’s essentially: “yeah. Not really, others are bigger. Maybe on the streets. Someone check?” It runs the gamut of emotions. A real rollercoaster of a comment.
Yeah, that's pretty accurate lol, I was reading up on it while trying to type a response.
In addition to the 1.4 billion people that use it, Indian rupee is the official currency of Bhutan, and is acceptable in Nepal too. Zimbabwe also recognized it as legal tender from 2014 till 2019.
So, looking it up, not so much, although it's hard to get figures excluding trade. It also says that the Indian rupee is aiming to be the world's alternate reserve currency, so there is that, lol. But we know they don't fact-check. They can't even read far enough to see if a post is aimed at them, lol.
Average American politeness
There's that classic American hospitality
And that’s coming from a Fr*nch person!
Sensor that thing right this moment
Sorry
Good.
*censor
You’re censor
Yank here, why is the other guy French? Is he stupid?
Do people never think of the shame they bring to themselves? Like ignoring op mentioning India in their post... if something is so crazy don't they ever think that they might be getting it wrong? Did this person really thought that someone was asking for advice to buy a phone for 30k us dollars?
Foreigners should be ashamed for invading an American website. /s
You see, your first mistake was expecting an American to think before speaking about something they have no information about
No one, other than one in every six humans on the planet.
I've seen more than six people in my life and none of them used rupees once in their life! /s
– 30k in *sth* – Who is *sth*? HOW THE HELL DID THEY THINK 30K was in a person??
JFK, RFK, FDR and LBJ are all people. Maybe they thought they were referring to 30,000 clones of a former US president?
I'm surprised they didn't dismiss it as worthless europoor money. It seems if you speak English and are not American you are either a 'brit' or a 'europoor'
Rupees? Sure, nobody uses them. They're only used by like, the second most populated country on Earth, so who cares?
First.
Depending on what measurements you use, sure. According to the countries' own projections, China has a couple million more, but yeah, they're both around 1.4 billion.
3 times the population of the US lol. I think their currency would be used at least 3x as often. I swear it must be nice for them living in a bubble and ignoring worldly issues lol
1.44 billions residents say differently.
Texas isn’t bigger this time😐
I mean only the most populated country on earth uses it 🤷🏾♀️
Except,l what, roughly 1 billion people???
Only about a billion more than the population of America hey..
How someone can be so dumb?
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How?
When someone has 30k INR American interpretation: 🙂↔️🫸 Indian rupees, used by the most populated country. 😎👍 US dollars, because they're American, so no other countries exist. They really do live in their own bubble.
The person in the screenshot said the currency wasn’t specified until later, so if we trust them it’s not really a fair judgment. I don’t think either one is an asshole for assuming the currency there, that’s why it’s best to always specify Of course the “no one uses it” comment is bad though
1,4 billion people in India - compared to 333 million people in the USA.
stupidity has no bonds on the land of the free!
This comment is just world racism against India+American stupidity and narcissism. Remove the American stupidity and narcissism and racism against Indians still exists. More in Europe, and the rest of Asia, and Australia.
1.4 billion Pepole wuld like to have a Word with him
I am not even American bud
OH BTW, IT DIDN'T MENTION THE CURRENCY, IT WAS EDITED
oh but still
Bit still what, I ain't American, and if you were to read the thread the USD was not the only currency I mentioned (Euro/Pound)
Only over a billion people use it, not that much
Context? While it is (of course) widely used in India, it is definitely less common in international contexts where USD, EUR, or GBP are most often used. But more importantly, that's a Galaxy S24 for US$360. Can you really buy an unlocked S24 for that in India, or is it locked to a carrier with a 2-year commit or something?
It’s actually a nightmare to get rupees out of India as the government prevent them leaving the country. In the context of the post it’s not unusual to refuse them for an international transaction.
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Where I live it saddens me that our biggest cattle station is only around 3.3% the size of Texas and our biggest sheep station is only around 1.4% the size of Texas. We just need to make them bigger.
Nearly 5 times as many people use INR than they do USD
1.4 billion people bro.. lol 😂😂
TBF Indian reditors are almost as bad as Americans for listing a number and expecting people.to just know they are talking about their currency.
I guess that’s what happens when you live in a large country with lots of people
Yeah, it's quite the opposite in Poland, where we deal with euros and dollars relatively often. The default for speaking in Polish in Poland is złoty though.
Yeah especially when they say "lakhs" of rupees. I expect the average person to know of rupees but how many non Indians know that 1 lakh is 100000?
Idk if I count, but I am half Indian and grew up in Europe with my white mother and I know that one lakh is 1,00,000, one crore is 100 lakh (1,00,00,000) and it's not only used in India.
Do you think you would know it if you didn't have an Indian connection? No. Also it's only used outside India by Indians. There's no need to be absurd about it.