Not too long ago, the New York-based magazine Newsweek gave 1,000 U.S. citizens the official naturalization test, and 38 percent of them failed. The magazine said that 73 percent did not know why the United States fought the Cold War, 70 percent did not know that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and 65 percent could not figure out that the Constitution was written at the Constitutional Convention. Sixty-three percent got wrong the number of Supreme Court judges, and 59 percent had no idea that Susan B. Anthony fought for women's rights or that John Boehner is the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The magazine also reported that 40 percent did not know that the U.S. fought Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II, 29 percent could not name the Vice President, and 23 percent did not know that Martin Luther King fought for civil rights. Experts interviewed by the magazine blamed the country’s ignorance partly on the great pedagogical gap between the rich and the poor. "In contrast to countries like Denmark or Finland, where citizens have a better grasp on how their country is run, we have a lot of very poor people without access to good education and a large immigrant population that does not speak English," said Dalton Coney, a sociologist from New York University. (ANI) Related thematic articles: puma outlet kirchheim YQI hsg CGN puma schuhe billig UEX tia QRV woolrich online shop MZG gvx JXF