hey guys welcome back to another episode of foreign reacts we're going to be checking out
average american versus average russian people comparison so we're going to get
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and enjoy this reaction video have you ever seen the 1985 movie rocky iv that movie could easily
have had the subheading america versus russia the story depicts two boxers duking it out america's
rocky balboa played by sylvester stallone and the giant ivan drago played by dolph lundgren it came
out six years before the collapse of the soviet union and was according to some skeptics a blatant
propaganda movie as much as it was an exhilarating sports movie a fight between a despicable russian
pumped up on steroids hooked up to machines and the simple good-hearted american going back to
nature to train for the fight the message was clear it was good against evil and in 1985 such
a movie was a powerful thing things have changed now but you could say some competition or fear
still exists between the two powerful nations we will explore those changes in this episode of the
infographic show the average american versus the average russian don't forget to subscribe
and click the bell button so that you can be part of our notification squad let's first give some
historical background on these two nations we'll start with the eldest russia in the 9th century
the east slavic state of kievan rus was formed which combined parts of what we know today as
belarus ukraine and russia the expansion of russia didn't happen overnight and much of it
occurred during the 17th century from the time of ivan the terrible in the 16th century to the
beginning of the 20th century russia had become a huge empire in 1914 its population was 170 million
a number that would soon be denuded by the fallout of communist uprisings a typhus pandemic and of
course those that were lost to the german and austrian armies the soviet union was formed in
1922 by the leaders of the russian communist party on the principles of communist ideology
this ideology encompassed women's rights atheism and was against consumerism it also
later began to encompass summary executions suppression of the arts and free thinking
as well as debilitating surveillance measures at the time of its downfall in 1991 the ussr
had a total population of 293 million russia's population today is 143 369 000. the united states
of america was formed when 13 colonies declared their independence from the united kingdom on
july 4th 1776. it's thought those colonies had a total population of around 2.5 million people
most of whom had european ancestry including english scottish irish scotch-irish german french
dutch and african although many of the africans were slaves religion was a mixed bag with most
people being either puritan catholic anglican baptist quaker or lutheran america quickly grew
in size and stature almost hitting 100 million in 1914 and at the time of the collapse of the
soviet union the u.s was home to 253 million people today that population has swelled to 325
million what about the russians and americans of today not many american folks today identify with
being puritan but next to some other developed western nations the usa is still fairly developed
christianity is the biggest religion with numerous denominations covering about 70.6 percent of the
population according to pew research almost all the rest of the people said they were nothing
atheist or agnostic with jews only making up about two percent of the population and muslims
just point nine percent buddhists and hindus were said to make up 0.7 percent of the population each
75 percent of the russian population belong to the orthodox christian denomination 5 are muslim and 1
belong to the faiths of judaism protestantism and buddhism according to the same russian survey 8
of russians said they are atheist let's take a look at the bodies of our two populations a
western stereotype of russia is that the country is home to a lot of large strong people perhaps
embodied by the aforementioned fictional boxer ivan drago who was actually played by a swede
well there is some truth to the big russian given that the average height of a man in the
country is five foot ten the average russian woman's height is five foot four and a half
the average height for an american man is slightly less at five foot nine or five foot
nine and a half depending on the source in america the average woman is five foot four as for weight
the average weight in russia for a man is about 168.8 pounds and for a russian woman 160.2 pounds
according to one russian media source the country like many others is presently experiencing more
obesity with about 30 percent of its citizens being on the wrong end of the scale the same
article cited a study that said after mexico and the us russia is spending the largest sum of
money on treating diseases related to obesity we know from our other shows that america is leading
the developed world in terms of obesity with the average weight for a man being about 195.5 pounds
according to the center for disease control the average weight for a woman is 166.2 pounds when
starting out in life who has it easier according to the us's national center for education
statistics four out of five of all americans get through high school and come out with a
diploma asian americans do best of all in terms of actually graduating followed by white hispanic
black and last native american according to an article in the atlantic about 66 percent of those
graduates will immediately enroll at university almost ninety percent of american children attend
free public schools seven percent pay for private schools and three percent are homeschooled the us
budget for education is around 59 billion dollars for 2018 a cut of 9.2 billion in
2017. more than 40 percent of people will attain a four-year university degree in the u.s according
to the organization for economic cooperation and development many young folks in the u.s will take
a gap year and travel abroad in 2016 a study by the american gap association revealed that
this gap year was beneficial to 97 or 98 of young people in terms of helping them develop according
to bloomberg russia has the third highest level of secondary education in the world with 54
of people attending university according to oecd class sizes are small and that's why russia has
one of the best literacy rates in the world at 98 slightly higher than the 97.9 percent of the usa
high school is free but what's good for students is they get out of school at 1 or 2 p.m u.s
students study longer hours russia is credited for having short days for students but good results
overall private schooling is not too common unless students go to an international school russia also
has the third highest university graduation rate in the world at 55 percent only behind south korea
and canada according to a student loans website russians can expect to owe in the region of 25 000
after completing university while in the us the class of 2016 graduates owed an average of about
37 172 each what about after school americans have one of the highest average salaries in the world
at 4 93 a month although the minimum wage is only 7.25 an hour according to the cia factbook about
15.1 percent of americans live in relative poverty trading economics states that in 2017 the average
russian salary was 694 dollars a month while russia has plenty of billionaires 96 behind the
usa's 595 according to forbes the guardian reports that as of 2016 more russians are living in
poverty than the 13.1 cia factbook statistic given for 2013. this was due to an economic crisis that
started in 2014. the cost of a big mac in russia according to the big mac index is two dollars
and five cents and in the us the average cost is five dollars and six cents looking at a comparison
of costs compiled by nation master russia is much cheaper but the people have less purchasing power
perhaps this is one reason you seem to find more american gap year students than russian students
drinking from buckets on exotic beaches under a full moon still for a rich country america
is the worst of all when it comes to spreading that wealth around according to a 2015 report in
fortune magazine incidentally the latest global standard of living index based on basic needs
foundations of well-being and opportunity has neither of these countries placed in the top 10.
those spots are mostly taken by european countries except for canada australia and new zealand
gdp alone is by no means the sole barometer of social progress americans work on average
34.4 hours per week when in full-time employment and don't have any right to vacation days by law
other than 10 public holidays cnn reports that russians on average work slightly more hours
everybody just be on that thing bro but about the vacation bro like what oh yeah yeah big facts big
facts this video is really interesting i can't lie to you it's really interesting there's a lot
of similarities between russia and america which is kind of surprising for me if you notice i'm
actually locked in i didn't even really say much it's really crazy 100 more a year than americans
but do get 28 days of paid vacation by law as well as nine public holidays all russians get
free health care provided by the government and as you'll know from our other shows getting sick in
america could bankrupt a family outside education and making money in the usa about 6.8 per 1 000
people got married in 2016 the statistic includes all people in the usa in one year births per woman
in the u.s is 1.84 on average american men can expect to live to 77.1 and american women 81.9
in russia the marriage rate is 9.2 per 1 000 in one year and the divorce rate half of that
same as in the us on average russian women have 1.7 children life expectancy for men in russia is
64.7 and for women 76.3 the guardian reports that this big difference in life expectancy between the
genders is due to a large percentage of russian men dying before they reach 55. the reason the
article gives vodka so where would you rather live and why let us ah russian boys in these
vodka oh my gosh bro but that's kind of crazy though but um yeah that was a that was a pretty
nice chop up talking about you know russia it was really really interesting but uh yeah that's gonna
be it guys um hope you guys enjoyed it man uh like and subscribe i'm out of here guys peace