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Old Oct 5, 2006, 03:33 am   #13 (permalink) (top)
madprophet
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As for those dirty foreigners being forced to learn English and American history. Hmmm:

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"Among college seniors, less than half--47.9%--correctly concluded that "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal" was from the Declaration of Independence. More than half did not know that the Bill of Rights prohibits the governmental establishment of an official religion, and "55.4 percent could not recognize Yorktown as the battle that brought the American Revolution to an end" (more than one quarter believing that it was the Civil War battle of Gettysburg that had ended the Revolution)." -- Link
And:

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"Only one in four Americans can name more than one of the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment [...]" -- Link
Count them off in your head, how many did you get?

Only one in a thousand got all five. One-tenth of a percent.


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