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The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation reports:
Just a third of Americans can pass a multiple choice "U.S. Citizenship Test", fumbling over such simple questions as the cause of the cold war or naming just one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for.
And of Americans 45 and younger, the passing rate is a tiny 19 percent, according to a survey done for the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
Worse: The actual test only requires that 60 percent of the answers be correct. In the survey, just 36 percent passed.
Among the embarrassing errors uncovered in the survey of questions taken from the U.S. Citizenship Test and conducted by Lincoln Park Stragtegies:
- 72 percent of respondents either incorrectly identified or were unsure of which states were part of the 13 original states.
- 24 percent could correctly identify one thing Benjamin Franklin was famous for, with 37 percent believing he invented the lightbulb.
- 12 percent incorrectly thought WWII General Dwight Eisenhower led troops in the Civil War.
- 2 percent said the Cold War was caused by climate change.
Also at Sputnik and The Tri-City Herald
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1-in-3 Pass `US Citizenship Test,' Just 19% for Americans 45 and Younger
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @09:38PM (3 children)
Someone does not understand their own country. You, it is you.
(Score: 5, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @09:47PM
No, I'm afraid I'm going to have to side with our contrarian troll today. You're the one who doesn't understand America. The thing that's out of date is the citizenship test. Instead of a passing score being above some amount, passing scores should be scores below a certain amount.
Ignorance: the #1 American value!
Actually, we should also add some math problems to the citizenship test, like $7 = 3x + 1$, solve for $x$. (Remember, if you get $x = 2$, go back to Russia you incel eurofag!) Fear of maths and science: the #2 American value!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 05 2018, @12:16AM (1 child)
America is an idea, and those ideas happen to allow for a melting pot of immigrants.
A melting pot of immigrants is not the goal; it's just that a melting pot of immigrants is not disallowed by the underlying goal.
There are SO MANY people who not only are oblivious to this goal, but who actively work against it. We don't want you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 05 2018, @01:13AM
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I submit that "whiteness" is cultural, and that anyone can become "white". Here are a few simple rules to do this:
a) When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
b) While in Rome, do not find fault with the Romans.
c) Remember that anyone, by following the above rules, can become a Roman.
Indeed, if you can understand how Romans act, and act that way yourself, you are perceived by the Romans as one of them -- or, at the very least, an ally. You will find that Romans reward those who are their allies, and prefer to do business with other Romans. And, since most people with money in Rome are Romans, it does one best to cultivate their company.
If you constantly find fault with the Romans, you are not one of them, and they will close ranks in both subtle and overt ways against you. You will find that Romans do not want to do business with you, and anything you want to do which needs Roman help becomes harder.
Indeed, what has happened to the Africans -- the most notable of the not-Romans? They have been bought off by rich Romans -- been thrown a few slices of bread and been given a few circuses -- so that they can feel like they have accomplished something, while their schools are deliberately given undereducated teachers who look like them to prevent upward mobility, and their children are convinced that single parenthood is liberating -- exactly the opposite of what is needed in Roman society to excel.
A few escape that trap and become Romans -- only to be told by their peers that being Roman is something ugly which severs them forever from non-Roman Africans. Indeed, those who fight to become Romans are beset both by those rich Romans who do not want them, and by their own people, who do not realize that it might do them far better if they were to achieve true Roman citizenship. And yet, many manage; if their children can ignore the besmirchment of their parent by non-Romans, they are easily set up to be Romans too.
To understand this, just watch TV.