An interesting survey result:
US elected officials scored abysmally on a test measuring their civic knowledge, with an average grade of just 44 percent, the group that organized the exam said Thursday. [source]
So, how well would would our own government officials score on a similar test?
How well would the people?
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I think its part of your culture to want to know more. so you can’t really blame them if they score 20% for example…and they might surprise you and score as high as 80%.
I have friends who never left Amman, some who never (and don’t want to) visit Aqaba…
But lets rephrase the question,if I may…
What is knowing a country like?
Don’t know. Don’t care.
’nuff said
that’s what the thinktanks are for
“that’s what the thinktanks are for”
ah. the perfect answer
I don’t know if I can comment after Nas’s Last comment , I don’t know what thinktanks are …! but what i know is government ministers are ones who come from a highly sophisticated families and are rich from birth , Unlike Obama
Is that helping out ? these days all we have to know is how to really get our money in the bank and live accordingly , the crises is a plague and it is reaching our savings ( i am talking as a middle class person) .
abu abdullah: sorry, didn’t mean to be a conversation-stopper.
no man I didn’t mean it like that …
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