You mean my preciousss?
I like the cut of your jib, you can vote.
For now…
I also guessed the NI answer. I hesitated on the Tate Gallery question. There are four: two in London, one in Liverpool, and one in Cornwall.
I picked London because - obvious.
I didn’t guess the NI question or the gallery one. Those two were the two I missed. But then I’m an American, so I’m going to say 22/24 is pretty good.
It’s been called that before, but not by you…
Anyway, I would love to see a reality TV show in which a dozen random individuals—selected from a population of US citizens by birth—were subjected to the immigration system. I don’t mean being thrown into ICE detention—not right away at least—but simply required to live their lives as if subject to the same laws as a legal permanent resident. Not even undocumented! See how generous I am? I’d even be willing to spot them five years of legal residency to help speed things along.
First participant to complete the US citizenship process wins the right to vote in the next election (priceless, right? You literally can’t buy such a prize—although the filing fee for the N-400 is several hundred dollars). First participant to learn that they are permanently barred from ever becoming a citizen because of something stupid they did 30 years ago (or more recently, as applicable) wins a one-way ticket to… wherever their ancestors are from (let’s go with the patrilineal line to keep it manageable). Unless of course that country won’t have them back. In which case, they get to share a very large room at an ICE detention center for an indefinite period of time (in this case, whenever the season ends—unless they prove to be an audience favorite).
Agreed. But of course, Dopers are hardly representative…
I also got 22/24.
I was way off on the number of members in the Northern Ireland Assembly (90 MLAs). I was instead thinking the question was referring to the number of MPs who represented constituencies in Northern Ireland (18 MPs).
I also missed the minimum age to serve on a jury (18 instead of 21 years old). I guessed correctly on the art museum question.
I’m rather proud of the fact that I got so many relatively obscure questions about British history correct, since I’m a bit of a British history buff.
22/24. I’ll accept that.
My question is, upon what do you base your assumption that he actually votes?
I know that for test taking purposes the three branches of the federal government are the legislative, executive, and judicial. However, I assert that there are actually five - legislative, executive, judicial, administrative, and the federal reserve,
Both the non-regulatory administrative functions of government which provide and oversee the management of essential services, and the Federal Reserve System which sets monetary policy, sets the federal reserve fund lending rate, and regulates retail and commercial banks, are firmly part of the executive branch of government. .
If there is an additional “branch of government” that falls outside of the normal US Federal structure it is the intelligence and covert action community, and in particular the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, and their associated joint “black budget” programs which, despite being essentially under the aegis of direct executive authority and with ostensible Congressional oversight, are actually a kind of shadow government that largely sets its own policies and detail agenda, conducts illegal surveillance operations on American citizens without due process or any real accountability, and have often served the narrow interests of principals or influential behind-the-scenes policy makers over those of the nation at large.
Stranger
Nowadays more liberal (it wasnt always that way), and yes- smarter than the average bear .
I’m a lifelong U.S. citizen, and I got 21 of 24, which is an average score for those who took the test. I should have done better, but I mistakenly selected “Isle of Wight” as the Crown Dependency when I knew it was the Isle of Man which has that special status.
So…here is my secret little feeling. Immigrants like myself are MORE BETTER citizens than people who were just born here.
I had to pass a test to get here! At 7! Natural born just had to be born! They didn’t even have to try!
Just a childish feeling, and the test I passed at 7 is probably one that lots of people could not pass on first go (What are the three branches of government and why are there three branches?
Answer Executive, legislative, judicial
Why: to check and balance each other
So…yeah!
Here’s the secondary part of that. My parents NEVER voted. They complained about this country constantly though. As a result I didn’t start voting at 18 but when I started I vote in everything I am allowed to now. It is weird, how they adopted this country…sort of.
I happen to agree with you, at least relative to huge swaths of native born “real Americans.” I have nothing but respect for those who are naturalized citizens. I used to teach ESL classes, and the immigrants I taught were inspirational.
That’s a weird question. I assume that the trick meant by “everyone” is that not everyone living in the country is a citizen? But “everyone” also includes six-month-old babies, and convicted felons currently in prison. If you really take “everyone” seriously, I think the answer is “none of the above”.
I didn’t get that question. I did get 10 out of 10.
I thought a lot of them were like that.
I’d look at the question, think ‘there’s a batch of answers to that’, then look at the choices and say ‘oh, they must want this one.’
(There were some to which there was only one answer, but others for which it seemed to me there were a number of them.)
12 minute video that won’t work for me. I can see the first question, but clicking on one of the answers (a guess) only brings me back to the same screen. Probably I’ve got something enabled or disabled that’s getting in the way.
– from the questions people are reporting, I’d have flunked that one soundly.
Plus which, only a (probably non-representative) portion of Dopers are even in this thread, let alone taking the quizzes.
There’s no member more vehement than a convert! (a phenomenon also true of religions.)
– to some extent seriously: anyone born here just happened to be born here. People who came here (for the past couple of centuries anyway) came here on purpose.
Though I’m not sure how much it counts as coming here on purpose if you were 7 or younger at the time. – did you really have to take a citizenship test at age 7?
Yes, basic constitutional rights are afforded to everyone in the country. Even tourists from somewhere else. This is why there is a naval base in southern Cuba where the military attempts to get away with really bad stuff that would not be allowed inside the country.
True.
But I don’t think both parts of any of those combinations apply to a six month old.
And felons in prison can’t bear arms, use freedom of assembly, or, in some states, vote at all. They do have freedom of speech and freedom to run for federal office – but noncitizens don’t have freedom to run for federal office, so that one doesn’t apply even to every adult, either.
I don’t think there is a combination there that applies to “everyone living in the United States.”
If what they mean is “adults not imprisoned”, then there is one. But that’s not “everyone”.
The point is that freedom of speech and freedom of assembly are rights specifically set out in the Constitution. It is obviously the intended answer.
Various rights may be lost upon conviction of a crime. They are still rights. Claiming that they are not rights for everyone because people in prison can’t do it is just a silly word game.
I’ve always felt this was true. (And, no, I’m not an immigrant.)
What makes a person an immigrant? A feeling that the current situation is not optimal and a willingness to make major changes to improve their situation.
This means the United States has always had a large pool of people who try to make things better. And this has made America a great country. We seek improvement.