Would You Fail A U.S. Citizenship Test?

Ana Kasparian and Michael Shure discuss a Newsweek poll that showed that a large percentage of Americans were unable to answer U.S. citizenship questions. Are Europeans better at their own citizenship tests?

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[LikaLaruku]

Only 38% failed? If there's one thing our country is good at, it's failing tests.

[TheAlmightyBabyDrago]

I'm not american and I can answer all the questions. I'm just saying! AND I haven't ever been to the US before....

[GuillermoSTD]

I don't know about the younger generations, but around 22 years ago I studied 10th grade in American as an exchange student, and even though I was still learning the basics of the language, in a few months I was doing better in US History tests than most students in my class, which at the time I thought it was pretty appalling (for them). It is very dangerous to have a society that is so ignorant of its own history and culture, and let's not talk about *foreign* history...

[gazelle1991]

@HannibleBonaparte yeah exactly :)) i'd rather not know who the vice president is (cos it changes every so often), than not being able to do this simple math @.@ yeah sit there and talk, theyoungturks...

[HannibleBonaparte]

1:34 The guy says that he'd say that "48% of american's could tell him who Joe Biden was and 71% percent couldn't." Maybe HE should take this test O.O

[vlvtrvlvr5613]

he is defending ignorance and pointing out the less worse on that situation with american citizens

[RoyalDog214]

@CakeBeneathTheIcing What do you consider the Korean War and Vietnam War to be then? Both United States and Soviet Union were spreading their influences by supplying equipment and training to those that agree with their political system.

In the Korean War, we actually fought against 100,000 Communist Chinese troops who were trying to take back North Korea from us. Although there wasn't that much contact between the Soviet and United States, there are some Soviet pilot who fight against US.

[Purplestar2799]

i am 12 years old and i know ALL the Bill of Rights

[Metallicazor]

@CakeBeneathTheIcing you're right it was more of an economical war but don't forget about the shit happened in vietnam...

[CakeBeneathTheIcing]

But we didn't fight the cold war, did we? There were no physical battles, it was the US vs. Russia being paranoid about who was going to destroy who first, right? And there was the whole space race thing too...

we haven't actually studied the cold war in school yet, this is just what I remember hearing. Am I right?