Posted by Jack
Before you read the following, I want to ask you the questions these Americans flunked, because I believe anyone who cares enough to read our articles cares enough to be informed citizens:
1. What is the Vice President’s name:
2. Name two countries American fought in WWII?
3. What was America’s opposing political power during the cold war?
4. What is America’s economic system called?
5. Name two freedoms outlined in the First Amendment:
6. The population of the US is between 750 million and 1 billion, true or false.
7. English is the third most spoken language in the world, true or false.
It’s the information age, we have access to more information than at any other time in our history and anyone can get a free education. Then why are so many Americans uninformed about the world around them? A Newsweek study asked 1,000 U.S. citizens to take the nation’s official citizenship test, and the results may shock you.
Among U.S. citizens in the study, 29 percent could not name the vice president, 43 percent were unable to define the Bill of Rights, and a startling 40 percent did not know America fought Japan and Germany in World War II. Also, 73 percent did not know communism was the main concern of the Cold War, and 67 percent couldn’t identify capitalism as our economic system.
Another poll found that one in four Americans couldn’t name more than one of the five freedoms in the First Amendment.
The first amendment rights guarantee freedom of religion, free speech, free press, association, and the ability to petition government. But only one in a thousand correctly identified all of these. Just one in four Americans could name more than one of their rights.
A National Geographic poll of over 500 young Americans, aged 18 to 24, showed that six per cent failed to locate their own country on a map of the world.
Two years after the Iraq War began, 70 per cent of Americans still believed Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the 9/11 attacks, according to a Washington Post survey.
In the same group, two thirds of the respondents estimated the population of the US at between 750 million and two billion (actual figure: 298 million).
Three quarters said English was the most commonly spoken native language in the world. It is actually third, behind Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.
In the same group, two thirds of the respondents estimated the population of the US at between 750 million and two billion (actual figure: 298 million).
You might want to check up on this number, what with all the MIGRATION we have this could be true, all to soon.