Do you have what it takes to be an American ? Take this quiz.

[quote name='bmulligan']Surely the test for citizenship is much more difficult than the one given on this MSNBC page. Unfortunately, I'm sure most true americans would fail this one nonetheless.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19552808/

If you don't get 100%, I reserve the option to put a boot in your ass.[/quote]

You got 100%? Gratz
 
[quote name='SpazX']Damn I didn't know what form to fill out.[/QUOTE]
lol, I just guessed on that one. "N-*00" appeared twice, so I figured one of those must be it (also: social security number is obviously wrong, "FD" doesn't sound like an INS form), and "Application for Naturalization" sounds much more natural than "Petition for Naturalization".
 
Proctor: All right, here's your last question. What was the cause of
the Civil War?

Apu: Actually, there were numerous causes. Aside from the obvious
schism between the abolitionists and the anti-abolitionists,
there were economic factors, both domestic and inter--

Proctor: Wait, wait... just say slavery.

Apu: Slavery it is, sir.
 
[quote name='bmulligan']I reserve the option to put a boot in your ass.[/QUOTE]

95%; I got #8 wrong.

The real citizenship test is far harder than this, and includes and oral segment as well (I think).

As far as 'boot in your ass,' you gonna 'bring it on,' lil' Toby Keith? After all, I missed one. ;)
 
What takes to be American is to sacrifice your health for tar crap work doing nothingness for the rest of your life even if you could brag about how much puntang you scored.

Then join some military and fight for some fat man who barely lift a finger while your wife is probably sleeping with every single dirty slag on US soil. Then to discover your children all turn out wrong and spend the rest of your life pondering what could have been.

That what it takes to be an American. Personaly there is nothing left in America anymore just a pack of lies.

The only thing keeping me on this soil is the people I care for and love like a giant Anchor or dumbell tied to my freedom.

Still what kind of person makes such a poll or servey must have no real respect for America.

Most Americans don't even know about the Texas Metropolis, the origin of there current citizens, or even why we are so free.

I feel sorry for all my fellow brothers and sisters who grewed up and watch the stained fists of America grab them and threw them out the window of exsistance itself.

No matter how you crunch the numbers Americans lives is worth less then the soil that is below the bedrock that is under there homes.

I watch as the beautiful, the mighty, and even the wise a fall to those who have and the selfish.

I will admit America did great for our parents and childhoods but in the end it is just a stage with tired out actors, liars, thieves, moronic idiots, and killers who don't even enjoy the kill.

Americans are the throw backs of society that the old world never wanted to begin with hanging on to the cargo ship known as life like the roaches we are only to abandon ship and repopulate without knowing the cost of our actions.

A true American would know what is the original name of America and there countries and territories.
 
[quote name='PyroGamer']lol, I just guessed on that one. "N-*00" appeared twice, so I figured one of those must be it (also: social security number is obviously wrong, "FD" doesn't sound like an INS form), and "Application for Naturalization" sounds much more natural than "Petition for Naturalization".[/quote]
I know, it was between those two and I picked the wrong one. Damn my luck. Application makes so much more sense now...
 
90% for me. Killed by the voting rights amendment question and the naturalization application. Two things I hope I'll never need to brush up on.
 
[quote name='elprincipe']95% - I missed the application form number. And no, I don't feel bad about not knowing a government form number. :p[/QUOTE]



looks like you are getting booted, and here i thought these colors dont run
 
[quote name='Loyaltist Shinra']What takes to be American is to sacrifice your health for tar crap work doing nothingness for the rest of your life even if you could brag about how much puntang you scored.

Then join some military and fight for some fat man who barely lift a finger while your wife is probably sleeping with every single dirty slag on US soil. Then to discover your children all turn out wrong and spend the rest of your life pondering what could have been.

That what it takes to be an American. Personaly there is nothing left in America anymore just a pack of lies.

The only thing keeping me on this soil is the people I care for and love like a giant Anchor or dumbell tied to my freedom.

Still what kind of person makes such a poll or servey must have no real respect for America.

Most Americans don't even know about the Texas Metropolis, the origin of there current citizens, or even why we are so free.

I feel sorry for all my fellow brothers and sisters who grewed up and watch the stained fists of America grab them and threw them out the window of exsistance itself.

No matter how you crunch the numbers Americans lives is worth less then the soil that is below the bedrock that is under there homes.

I watch as the beautiful, the mighty, and even the wise a fall to those who have and the selfish.

I will admit America did great for our parents and childhoods but in the end it is just a stage with tired out actors, liars, thieves, moronic idiots, and killers who don't even enjoy the kill.

Americans are the throw backs of society that the old world never wanted to begin with hanging on to the cargo ship known as life like the roaches we are only to abandon ship and repopulate without knowing the cost of our actions.

A true American would know what is the original name of America and there countries and territories.[/QUOTE]


Wow, someone sleep on wrong side of bed.
 
[quote name='looploop']90% for me. Killed by the voting rights amendment question and the naturalization application. Two things I hope I'll never need to brush up on.[/QUOTE]

I also got a 90%; I missed the same two questions you did.
 
I don't think we're supposed to acknowledge him.

[quote name='bmulligan']Wow, someone sleep on wrong side of bed.[/quote]


I got a 90%, I missread one question and didn't know another.
 
[quote name='Ma12kez']95% - #14 got me because I thought it was asking who ultimately chooses the Supreme Court justices.[/QUOTE]

That's what it is asking, actually. The president chooses Supreme Court justices; the Senate merely gives "advice and consent."
 
I actually got 100%, but I fully admit that INS question was a total 50/50. I had no idea, and short of someone actually applying for naturalization, I can't imagine who would.
 
100%, though I found the question about forms laughable. The only one I found somewhat difficult was the "which of these amendments does not address voting rights" question.


I only ask 3 things of an immigrant.

1. Speak English
2. Desire to truly be an American and not simply a foreigner working in America
2. Be a productive member of society, and have the means to support you and your familiy financially. Have a college degree or some other means of demonstrating a skill or ability to provide for yourself without relying on government assistance.

America has no shortage of unskilled laborers who may not speak English, there is no need to import more. "Jobs Americans are unwilling to do" is a myth, this is simply a means to drive wages down.
 
How about not sending their untaxed income back to their home country?

[quote name='dafoomie']100%, though I found the question about forms laughable. The only one I found somewhat difficult was the "which of these amendments does not address voting rights" question.


I only ask 3 things of an immigrant.

1. Speak English
2. Desire to truly be an American and not simply a foreigner working in America
2. Be a productive member of society, and have the means to support you and your familiy financially. Have a college degree or some other means of demonstrating a skill or ability to provide for yourself without relying on government assistance.

America has no shortage of unskilled laborers who may not speak English, there is no need to import more. "Jobs Americans are unwilling to do" is a myth, this is simply a means to drive wages down.[/quote]
 
[quote name='Kayden']How about not sending their untaxed income back to their home country?[/QUOTE]
Falls under question #2.

I find it stunning that remittances are just about Mexico's #1 source of income. If this doesn't indicate that we have a major problem, I don't know what would.
 
[quote name='dafoomie']Falls under question #2.

I find it stunning that remittances are just about Mexico's #1 source of income. If this doesn't indicate that we have a major problem, I don't know what would.[/QUOTE]

I'd say that's more a sign that Mexico has a major problem. I admit I haven't fully thought this through, but my gut instinct tells me: it's their money. Why can't they use it legally, as they see fit? Are we not capitalists?
 
Say you get paid and go out and buy a game. Now the retail employee can keep his job. He gets paid, he buys a car. Now a assembly man keeps his job. He goes out and buys X, maker of X keeps paying people to make X and they go out and buy Y. Repeat.

Thats how the economy keeps healthy, money circulates.

Now imagine that instead, that Pedro trims trees all summer and sends all his money to his family in Mexico. His family will use it to enact the same purchasing cycle, except in Mexico. It wouldn't be too bad if the reverse was happening (Mexico sending money into the US) but its not. So the economy is going to hemorage as we piss money into Mexico without return. Since we very well cant run out of money, the government just makes more, which increases inflation.




[quote name='trq']I'd say that's more a sign that Mexico has a major problem. I admit I haven't fully thought this through, but my gut instinct tells me: it's their money. Why can't they use it legally, as they see fit? Are we not capitalists?[/quote]
 
[quote name='dafoomie']
I only ask 3 things of an immigrant.

1. Speak English
2. Desire to truly be an American and not simply a foreigner working in America
2. Be a productive member of society, and have the means to support you and your familiy financially. Have a college degree or some other means of demonstrating a skill or ability to provide for yourself without relying on government assistance.

[/QUOTE]

We don't even ask those things of people who are already citizens. Why in the world should we require them for immigrants.

I can say from personal experience that every immigrant, legal and illegal, I've ever known are more hard working, ethical people than most regular americans I know.
 
[quote name='trq']I'd say that's more a sign that Mexico has a major problem. I admit I haven't fully thought this through, but my gut instinct tells me: it's their money. Why can't they use it legally, as they see fit? Are we not capitalists?[/QUOTE]
Because many of them obtained the money illegally by working illegally in the United States? If they're here legally and sending that money back, fine. But, we should keep this in mind when considering allowing more legal aliens to enter the US to work, having all that money drained from the economy is not good.[quote name='bmulligan']We don't even ask those things of people who are already citizens. Why in the world should we require them for immigrants.

I can say from personal experience that every immigrant, legal and illegal, I've ever known are more hard working, ethical people than most regular americans I know.[/QUOTE]
Thats not the issue, and you probably know it. Most of them are good, hard working people. But, you can't just let anyone in who wants to come, the effects on the economy would be disastrous. You have to take a pragmatic approach to the problem of immigration, and do what best benefits the United States as a whole.

This wouldn't be an issue if the Mexican government weren't one of the most ineffective and corrupt this side of Russia. They should be a rich country, they border the United States and have significant oil assets. Their primary economic program is to encourage emigration to the United States.

Immigration is also a safety valve for their government. Those who are unhappy with the state of affairs simply leave, instead of trying to fix their country's problems. This is not an indictment of the people leaving, but of the government that encourages this in order to keep themselves in power.

The only way to have any real progress in Mexico is to clamp down on the border. It is not in the best interests of the United States to let massive numbers of Mexicans into the country.
 
No kidding, look what it did to Mexico. :lol:
[quote name='dafoomie']

The only way to have any real progress in Mexico is to clamp down on the border. It is not in the best interests of the United States to let massive numbers of Mexicans into the country.[/quote]
 
[quote name='dafoomie']Because many of them obtained the money illegally by working illegally in the United States? If they're here legally and sending that money back, fine.[/QUOTE]

Okay, fair enough.
 
[quote name='trq']I actually got 100%, but I fully admit that INS question was a total 50/50. I had no idea, and short of someone actually applying for naturalization, I can't imagine who would.[/quote]
Same. Got 100%, but totally guessed between "petition" and "application" for naturalization. Petition just sounded more right. :)
 
I got all of them except number 19. I had no idea about any naturalization form.

Even though I got less than 100% I doubt anyone will attempt an ass-booting. :D
 
[quote name='VanillaGorilla']I pay my taxes and don't break the law, no quiz can tell me I don't have "what it takes" to be American.[/quote]

Exactly. I only scored 60%, which is probably pretty good for someone who never went to college, didn't study for the test, and finished high school 6 years ago. Do any of you that scored 100%, think you could study some Mexican history, ace their immigration test and then go to Mexico and be more of a Mexican than the people that were born and raised in that culture? Of course not. There is so much more to being a member of a society than knowing its historical facts.
 
80%, eh. Messed up on the 13 original states one ("fuck it, I'm not reading all that"), the immigration naturalization form, and the one about the member of the Supreme Court.
 
100%

The form one was kinda obivous, since it said to apply and one was an application, and one was a petition. Though I thought maybe I might've missed that and the voting one, I don't remember what each amendment is about.
 
90%

I didn't know the form question, and the one about the Justices was unclear: I didn't know if it wanted the President, who nominates candidate, or the Senate, who confirms the nominated person.
 
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