- I'm thinking of Massachusetts, but I'm remembering--
I don't remember how to spell Massachusetts. (chuckles)
- I have no idea. Oh, no, no, no!
- We the people! - I'm American!
♪ (upbeat techno intro) ♪
- (React) Today, we're doing something different.
Immigration has been a hot button issue lately.
- Yeah. - (React) Today, we're going
to have you take the actual US naturalization test.
- Interesting. - I actually know what that's like.
I am from Brazil. I was born there.
And as of two, maybe three years ago, I am an American citizen.
- (React) That's amazing. Congratulations!
- My parents, they immigrated here in the US.
I went through that whole process of becoming a US citizen.
- (React) Do you think that you have a good amount of knowledge
about the US and its history? - Yes. Did I retain any of it
is the very big question here. - How much do I remember
of US history? - If we're talking about
the white-washed history, I know pretty much.
If we're talking about the REAL history, nah,
I'm as dumb as every other white person out there, I think.
- (React) When taking this test, an applicant is usually given
100 questions that could potentially be asked.
And of those 100, they will be asked 10.
In order to pass, they need to get at least 6 out of 10 correct.
- Okay, that's not bad. You can pass with a D.
- I just need to get a D on this test.
- (React) As of December 2020, the pass rate for this test is 91%.
- Well, yeah, because immigrants are taking it, and they are
smarter than us. (laughs) - That's like almost everybody.
- (React) In 2019, over 849,000 people became naturalized US citizens.
- Congratulations. I mean that. - (React) How do you think
you will do? - I think I could do well.
I hope so. I'd be very disappointed if I don't pass this.
- I don't know if I'm gonna do well, but I think I'll pass.
- I didn't even study, so let's see how I do.
- I just feel like I'm gonna fail already.
- Yes, if I fail this, please don't deport me.
Thank you so much. (laughs)
- (React) Question number one, what document is the supreme law
of the land? - Supreme law? Okay.
- There are a couple things that come to mind.
The Constitution, the Declaration of Independence.
But I don't know if it's that easy. - Constitution!
(ding) - (React) Correct.
- The Constitution. (ding)
- (React) Correct. - The US Constitution.
(ding) - (React) Yes, that's correct.
- The Constitution! Yay! (ding)
- I'm just gonna go with my gut on this one.
I wrote the Constitution.
(ding) - (React) Ding, ding, ding!
You got it! - (gasps) Thank you!
- (React) Question two, the idea of self-government
is in the first three words of the Constitution.
- Okay. - (React) What are those words?
- I suspect this is one that many people
will probably get wrong. - I'm not thinking anything.
This is a total blank. I might miss one.
I might miss this one. - This is just the thing
that just comes to my head right off the bat.
- Question marks. (buzzer)
- All right. I think it's "We the people."
(ding) - (React) Yup, you're right.
- We the people! (ding)
- Oh, that's such bad handwriting. Terribly sorry.
- (React) Yes. - Okay.
(ding) - (React) Yeah!
You got it! - (gasps)
I know so much more than I think!
- Two for two, baby!
- I'm on a roll. - I'll feel much better
once I get six right, because then I know I've passed.
- (React) What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?
- The First Amendment. - Oh, shoot.
Yeah, I'm pretty certain this is the first one.
- Freedom of speech?
- (React) Yes! (ding)
- I'm an American! (laughs) - Free speech.
(ding) - Freedom of speech.
(ding) - (React) Yes!
- Religious beliefs. (ding)
Thank God. No pun intended. - Only one real good answer,
which is free speech. (ding)
- (React) Perfect, yes. Do you remember what
the other freedoms are? - Freedom of the press.
- Freedom of religion. Freedom of speech.
Freedom of-- not protests. I forgot the word they used,
but freedom of, like... - (React) Yeah,
petition the government. - There it is.
- (React) Number four, what are the two parts
of the US Congress? - It's not the branches of government.
- I was thinking of the three branches.
That's not what we're talking about. I believe it's the House and Senate
of the Congress. (ding)
Okay. - Senate and the...
- House of Representatives and the Senate.
(ding) - I am completely blanking
on the second one. Senate! There it is.
This is really, really, really terrible handwriting,
so I'm so sorry for that. - (React) So, the Senate is correct,
but you missed the House of Representatives.
(buzzer) - When you say it now,
it makes a lot of sense. - Random government terms.
I wrote Senate and House of Reps.
- (React) Yes! (ding)
- (laughs) - (React) Question five,
how many voting members does the House of Representative have?
- Oh! - Oh, I always get
these numbers mixed up. - You know when you watch
to see if a bill is gonna pass the House
and it shows the voted yes, no, hasn't voted yet,
and then that total? I'm trying to remember that number.
- House of Reps, like, I don't know why
either 52 or 104. I don't know why those numbers are--
I'm just gonna write. I'm just gonna write
what comes to my head. Is this right?
- (React) No. Unfortunately not. (buzzer)
- Nooo! - (React) There are 435
House of Representatives. - 237.
(buzzer) - It feels like that's wrong.
I always get these numbers mixed up. This was the hardest part for me.
(buzzer) - Just throwing out a random number
that I thought of. What do I have to lose
besides actually learning something for once, right?
I just put 80. (buzzer)
- (React) It's actually 435. - I would've never got that.
- That is a full house. - It's not a round number.
I think it's 435?
(ding) - (React) You are the first person
to get that right! - (laughs)
- My confidence is waning, but it's okay. I still feel good.
- (React) Number six, what did Susan B. Anthony do?
- Who? Oh my gosh. - I know Susan B. Anthony's
on the coin. - The flag?
(buzzer) - She must've been
the first woman to vote. - (React) I'm gonna give you that.
(ding) She fought for the women's right
to vote. - Okay. She wasn't technically
the first, but she's the reason why they even can.
- I hope I got this right. I'm not sure. Okay, anyways,
I think she helped get the right to vote for women.
(ding) - (React) Yup, that's correct.
- Susan B. Anthony. That's right.
She was the racist woman that helped us get women's rights
to vote. Facts are facts!
- (React) She got white-- - Yes! She got white women
the right to vote. Exactly, exactly.
- Is this even a real word? Am I just making this up?
Why I do remem-- like, women's suffrage.
Also, I don't like the way this sounds, like suffrage.
Wait, why are you-- what is that reaction?
(ding) - (React) You got it right!
- (laughs) - Yeah, thank god this wasn't
a spelling bee. I would not be an American citizen
if it had anything to do with spelling.
Women's suffrage. She was the main crusader
for women's suffrage. (ding)
- (laughs) That's so cool! - (React) Name one
Native American tribe in the US.
- Damn. This-- I never thought I'd be ever asked this
in my entire life. - You know, I'm thinking
of a bunch of different tribes right now.
I just don't remember how to spell them.
- I feel bad, because I have friends that are part
of Native tribes, and they have shared with me
their heritage. I think the safe answer for me
is to pass, because I definitely don't wanna
put down anything offensive. - Cherokee.
(ding) - (React) Yes!
- I'm really mad! Cherokee!
- Sioux. (ding)
- I know four. I thought I knew more.
Anyway, so, I wrote the Sioux tribe. I have the Cherokee tribe.
I have the Lakota tribe and the Saponi tribe.
(ding) - America was really Native land,
so everyone should know that,
and we all should know the Native tribes.
- (React) Question number eight, name one US territory.
- Territory. - Territory, so not a state.
- I don't know! I have no idea.
And I'm gonna name, like, the Dakotas.
No! No, no, no, no, no!
Puerto Rico! (ding)
- (speaks foreign language) What's up, babies? Hey!
- I don't know. Is this-- I don't know.
(buzzer) - (React) No.
- No! - Let's just go with Puerto Rico.
(ding) - (React) Great! Wonderful.
And what were the other-- what are the other ones?
- I was thinking of Guam. I was thinking of the Virgin Islands
that we have here. - (React) Yes.
- This is just a-- I winged it totally.
(buzzer) - (React) Hawaii is now a state,
but it was, at one point, a territory.
Can you name three of the original 13 colonies?
- Oh, no. You mean states? - Oh, boyyyy.
- Three of them? I just need three.
- There's plenty of choices. - New York, Oregon, New Jersey.
I don't know. (buzzer)
I have no idea. - Pennsylvania, New York,
and Virginia. (ding)
- New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania.
(ding) - I'm thinking of Massachusetts,
but I'm remembering I don't remember
how to spell Massachusetts. (chuckles) - I was unsure about Massachusetts.
Also, how do you spell Massachusetts?
- (React) M-A-S-S-A-C-H-U-S-E-T-T-S. - I got that right?!
(ding) - I have Virginia, Delaware,
and Massachusetts. (ding)
- (React) Last question, what is one responsibility
that is only for US citizens? - Only for US citizens?
- What is a responsibility? You mean, like, pay taxes?
- In my mind, I was like, what do all Americans
have to do that no other country does?
I'm like, no.
(ding) To vote, yeah.
- Vote. (ding)
- Is it vote? - (React) Yes!
(ding) Yes!
- I am-- I'm American!
- This is-- I think it's the same answer.
The right to vote?
(ding) - (React) That's right!
Yup. You got it. (ding)
You're right. - Yeah, I failed!
Woo! - (React) Responsibility to vote.
Do you know what the second one is?
- Jury duty? - (React) Yup, you got it!
Congratulations, Daniel! You got all 10 correct!
♪ (patriotic music) ♪ - Nice! (laughs)
I was hoping I'd get all 10. I was like, "I know
a lot about it." - (React) Was this easier
or harder than you thought it was gonna be?
- This was very easy. (laughs) This is ridiculously easy.
- It was exactly what I thought the questions would be like
if that makes sense. - It was about as difficult
as I thought it was going to be. - (React) You don't know
all of these questions. Do you think this is a fair way
to decide whether someone who wasn't born here
should become a citizen or not? - To be a US citizen,
I gotta pass this test. They're gonna hit the books, you know?
They're gonna hit the internet. They're gonna learn.
They get their answers to these questions, be like
"I'm gonna remember this one."
- In reality, how government works SHOULD be important
and should be how a lot of people vote and learn
about the government, but it's just not highlighted
and important, like it's not an important conversation
for a lot of people. So, I think it's funny
that we're the immigrants. They're trying to ingrain that
into people who are coming in. - You only get--
you get ten questions, and you only need six of them right.
And the questions are pretty basic US knowledge.
It didn't feel too hard. - (React) If there was one question
that you could add to the US citizenship test,
what would it be? - I think there needs to be
more questions about the civil rights movements.
I think there needs to be more questions about protests
involved with human rights within America,
'cause that is integral into the growth of America,
and that was next to nothing. And they're like, "Women's suffrage."
I was shocked to see that in there, but for the most part,
there really wasn't any questions about that.
- It would be cool if they added more modern questions.
- What I think the US citizens should know is that our history
has REALLY been white-washed and that how we were founded
and built is not necessarily how we were really founded and built.
- I would like to see what the other questions are.
I'm really curious as to how I would do on all the 100.
I'm sure I wouldn't get all 100. - That was fun!
I was so-- dude, I was stressed, though.
I was stressin'.
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