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Mar 21, 2011

America: We Don’t Care, And It Shows!

Newsweek decided to see precisely how many people in America take their citizenship for granted, and the results are predictably depressing: 38 percent of people outright failed the official citizenship test, while 29 percent of people couldn’t name the Vice President and 6 percent couldn’t even identify when Independence Day was on the calendar. U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!

 
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