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New citizens are naturalized during a ceremony in Oakland, California, on August 13, 2013.

Could you pass the test? International citizenship tests are often more interested in cultural quirks than national knowledge

Global Politics

At some level, all countries push new citizens to integrate and that’s where civics and language citizenship tests come in. But when you take a longer look at how citizenship exams are developed worldwide, you realize they can have less to do with methodology than promoting a strict cultural identity.

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Why Taxes are Prompting Some Americans in Canada to Renounce their US Citizenship

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Citizenship and security in the wake of the Times Square terror attempt

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Immigrants-turned-citizens have a fresh take on what it means to be American

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Celebrating global citizenship on the Fourth of July

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First-time voters

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1.4 million legal immigrants applied for US citizenship last year, and the vast majority were Latinos; spurred by frustration over immigration reform, many legal residents decided to become citizens and cast their vote