其他国家选择比较阳春白雪的内容。英国认为准英国人应该熟悉《大宪章》(Magna Carta)。在伦敦关于这个话题的一场辩论中,有人问在场的人中谁真正读过《大宪章》,在场的几百位受过高等教育的伦敦人中只有两三个人举手。
Every country has made much the same discovery: few natives can answer basic constitutional questions. The German Green politician Volker Beck said Germany’s citizenship test “expects knowledge that Germans only have after they’ve studied law for a semester.
每个国家都得出了同样的结论:土生土长的人中很少有人能够回答基本的宪法问题。德国绿党政界人士富克尔·贝克(Volker Beck)表示,德国的公民入籍考试“要求掌握德国人需要学过一学期的法律才能具备的知识。
Immigrants memorise the answers, and generally pass, though it’s doubtful how much knowledge sticks. A Filipina I know recently attended her day-long “citizenship course in Paris. That evening I asked her what she’d learnt. There was this European organisation, she said, which excluded Turkey. Or maybe, she added, it included Turkey. What had most impressed her that day were the constant meal breaks, which may indeed be the best introduction to Frenchness.
移民们通过死记硬背,一般能够通过考试,尽管他们真正消化吸收了多少知识令人怀疑。我认识的一个菲律宾女士最近参加了巴黎一个全天的“公民课程。当天晚上我问她都学到了什么。她说,有一个什么欧洲的组织,不包括土耳其,后来她又补充说,可能也包括土耳其在内。那天给她印象最深刻的是接二连三的进餐休息时间,这或许的确是引导她熟悉法国生活方式的最好方式。
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